Street Map of the Lodz Ghetto
From The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak
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From The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak,
p. 16 and 17:
Street map of Lodz Ghetto:
(1) Baluty Market, site of the Jewish and German administration offices;
(2) 4 Plac Koscielny (Church Square), the ghetto archives office;
(3) 5-7 Spacerowa Street, the Sierakowiak's first home in the ghetto;
(4) hospital on Wesola Street, brutally evacuated by the Nazis in September 1942;
(5,6) two primary carpenters' workshops, sites of early labor unrest;
(7) 3 Krawiecka Street, the House of Culture, and assembly point during the final liquidation of the ghetto in the summer of 1944;
(8) old Jewish cemetery, to the south of which was "ghetto field," where tens of thousands of ghetto dwellers were buried in graves marked with only temporary placards;
(9) Marysin, the "rural" region of the ghetto, which contained the "villas" of the ghetto elite, the old-age home, the orphanage, the major school buildings, and many communal gardens;
(10) 17 Lutomierska (Fire Brigade Square), where Rumkowski delivered many speeches, including the "Give Me Your Children" exhortation;11 Lutomierska, site of the Arbeitseinsatz;
(11) hospital on Drewnowska Street, used as a deportation site;
(12,13) two primary tailors' workshops;
(14) 20 Wawelska Street, Dawid's second home in the ghetto;
(15) 34-36 Lagiewnicka Street, hospital where Dawid's mother was taken and that was evacuated during the "Nightmarish Days" of September 1942;
(16) prison on Czarnieckiego Street;
(17) 31 Franciszkanska Street, former movie theater Bajka, which was used as a synagogue;
(18) 6 Smugowa Street, gymnasium that Dawid attended.
The assistance of the following persons is very
gratefully acknowledged: Alan Adelson of
The Jewish Heritage Project, for
permission to reproduce the map; Michael J. Meshenberg, for obtaining permission
to reproduce the map; and Jim Stein for all image editing.
An illustrated six-page guide for Lodz Ghetto
researchers is available without cost from The Jewish Heritage Project. Send
request to: alanadelson@verizon.net.
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Source:
Adelson, Alan, editor, and Kamil Turowski,
translator. The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak. London: Bloomsbury Publishing
Plc, 1996.
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