# Łódź <table class="place-meta"> <tr><td>Yiddish</td><td dir="rtl">לאָדזש</td></tr> <tr><td>Local name(s)</td><td>Łódź (Polish), Litzmannstadt (German, 1940–45)</td></tr> <tr><td>Region (today)</td><td>Poland, Łódź Voivodeship (city county; capital of the voivodeship)</td></tr> <tr><td>Coordinates</td><td>51.7500 19.4667</td></tr> </table> <table class="place-meta place-eras"> <tr><th>Era</th><th>Town name</th><th>Country / jurisdiction</th></tr> <tr><td>1815–1918</td><td>Łódź</td><td>Congress Poland / Russian Empire</td></tr> <tr><td>1918–1939</td><td>Łódź</td><td>Second Polish Republic</td></tr> <tr><td>1939–1945</td><td>Litzmannstadt</td><td>Nazi Germany (renamed Litzmannstadt, annexed to the Reich/Warthegau)</td></tr> <tr><td>present</td><td>Łódź</td><td>Poland — Łódź Voivodeship</td></tr> </table> ## Overview Łódź grew under Congress Poland into Poland's great textile city, the 'Manchester of Poland,' and home to the second-largest Jewish community in interwar Poland (~223,000, about a third of the population, in 1939). After the German occupation of Sept 1939 it was renamed Litzmannstadt and annexed to the Reich; in early 1940 the Nazis established the Łódź Ghetto, the second-largest in occupied Poland — over 200,000 Jews were confined there before deportation to Chełmno and Auschwitz-Birkenau. <small>Sources: Wikipedia — Łódź Ghetto, USHMM — Łódź, JewishGen</small> ## People with events here | Person | Event | | --- | --- | | [[Szyfra Sumeraj (b.1872)]] | Born 06/15/1872 | | [[Golda Tugit (b.1903)]] | Born 1903 | | [[Efraim Sztajnbok (b.1903)]] | Born 05/10/1903 | | [[Brandla Guttman (b.1907)]] | Born 08/03/1907 | | [[Brana Mandelsberg (b.1908)]] | Born 12/15/1908 | | [[Estera Dajamant (b.1910)]] | Born 1910 | | [[Dawid Hersz Wajnrajch (b.1908)]] | Died 1911 | | [[Chawa Ides Wajnrajch (b.1911)]] | Born 10/01/1911–03/03/1915 | | [[Witla Dajamant (b.1912)]] | Born 1912 | | [[Chaim Sumer Wajnrajch (b.1914)]] | Born 1914, Died 02/15/1943 | | [[Sylvia K Sara Cholodenko (b.1914)]] | Born 06/01/1914 | | [[Rachel Waks (b.1916)]] | Born 05/04/1916 | | [[Laja Zysla Wajnrajch (b.1916)]] | Born 11/20/1916 | | [[Sam Weinreich (b.1919)]] | Born 09/03/1919 | | [[Adam Cholodenko (b.1920)]] | Born ~1920, Died ~1941 | | [[Mundec Cholodenko (b.1920)]] | Born 1920, Died 1941 | | [[Herszel Wajnrajch (b.1921)]] | Born ~1921 | | [[Freida Gitla Gola (b.1924)]] | Born 07/22/1924 | | [[Chaja Cyrla Wajnrajch (b.1928)]] | Born 1928, Died 09/08/1941 | | [[Reuven Biberstein (b.1936)]] | Born ~1936 | | [[Henryk Wajnrajch (b.1936)]] | Born 05/20/1936 | | [[Froim Manas Winer (b.1887)]] | Died 06/29/1939 | | [[Szmul Balter (b.1874)]] | Died 07/14/1940 | | [[Genendel Spitz (b.1912)]] | Died ~1941 | | [[Matla Spitz (b.1911)]] | Died 02/01/1941 | | [[Brajna (b.1878)]] | Died 04/21/1941 | | [[Moszek Chaim Winer (b.1883)]] | Died 07/22/1941 | | [[Chaim Winer (b.1865)]] | Died 09/08/1941 | | [[Yitzchak David Katz (b.1901)]] | Died 1942 | | [[Szajndla Barbanel (b.1920)]] | Died 02/17/1942 | | [[Sura Gitla Balter (b.1881)]] | Died 03/12/1943 |