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Welcome
to the Lodz ShtetLinks home page. This site was created
to share information on Jewish Lodz, to guide those researching their roots, and
to commemorate the Jewish community
that was virtually wiped out in the Shoah. This site contains original articles
and hundreds of links to documents, interviews, and photographs on Lodz and surrounding communities. To begin, click on a main topic to the left.
This
site is hosted at no charge by JewishGen, Inc. If you find this site of value,
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Remember ... never forget.
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Commemoration of the 65th Anniversary
of the
Liquidation of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto in Lodz
August 27-29,
2009
Click here for details.
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Zgierz,
Poland
October 18th – 22nd, 2009
The Association of the Cultural Preservation of the City of Zgierz
and the Mayor of the city of Zgierz
invite previous Zgierz residents and their descendants to the
Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary
of the Extermination of the Jews of Zgierz
We
are a non-governmental organization in Zgierz
(Poland). We are striving to protect our town's heritage and disseminate
knowledge of its history, in which the Zgierz Jewish community played an
important role.
We are
researching and documenting the history of Zgierz Jews. We have
translated into Polish the
Zgierz Yizkor Book, which is now accessible on the JewishGen website
and has been also published in book form.
All are
welcome to this event.
For more
information, contact: Zuzanna
O'Rourke
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Announcement:
Indexing Lodz Ghetto Work ID Cards |
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ALEC ASTOR Z”L
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AJZYK ABERSZTAJN
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significant project to honor the memory of his father, Alec
Astor, who was born in Lodz in 1915, lived through the
Holocaust, and died in London in 2006.
To see sample ID cards and learn more about this exciting
project,
click here. |
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Featuring... |
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Announcement
The books about the Jews of Lodz are now translated
into English on-line. See
"Jews of the Old Lodz".
Prominent and even not so prominent Jews from Lodz and
surrounding towns are listed.
It is worth looking for your family surnames.
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Article by Dr. Harold Bursztajn about his father
Abraham Bursztajn's
experiences during the Shoah in Lodz,
describing how two physicians, working under the shadow of death
with limited resources, were able to comfort and even promote hope
and healing, and how his father defied Rumkowski.
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Facts at a Glance
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City of Lodz chartered
in 1423
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Jewish presence
since ca. 1780
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Old cemetery,
dating from 1811 to 1892, destroyed during World War II
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New cemetery,
dating from 1892, largest Jewish cemetery in Europe
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Lodz Jewish population
in 1939: approx. 223,000, 34% of total
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Second largest Jewish population in Europe in 1939
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Second largest
city in Poland
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Lodz ghetto, 1940-1944:
longest existing Polish ghetto
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Deportations:
Chelmno, Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Survivors of the
Lodz ghetto: approximately 5,000-7,000
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Textile capital
of Eastern Europe
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Other Names: Lodzh (in Yiddish);
Lodsch (in German); Renamed Litzmannstadt
by the Germans, 1939-1945
- Nickname: "The Polish Manchester"
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Polish Pronunciation:
"wootch"
| Year |
Jewish Population |
Per Cent of Total
Population |
| 1793 |
11 |
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| 1808 |
58 |
13.4% |
| 1823 |
288 |
36.0% |
| 1856 |
2,886 |
11.7% |
| 1897 |
98,676 |
31.8% |
| 1921 |
156,155 |
34.5% |
| 1931 |
202,497 |
33.5% |
| 1939 |
223,000 |
34.0% |
Facts taken from Jewish Roots in Poland: Pages from the Past and Archival Inventories,
1997, by Miriam Weiner, Encyclopedia of the Holocaust, 1990, Encyclopaedia
Judaica and
other sources.
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1999-2003
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