Pre-War Community
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Right: Prayer book of Izrael Lejzerowicz of
Lodz, printed 1898 in Piotrkow Trybunalski (click for larger view).
Contributed by his grandson, Philip
Cola-Lejzerowicz
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"Lodz seethed in ferment as the city
grew day by day, hour by hour. Strangers converged from all over: German
engineers and master weavers; English chemists, designers, and
patternmakers; Russian merchant princes in blue coats and wide trousers
over short patent-leather boots; Jewish traveling salesmen and
commission agents -- gay, lusty young men who descended upon Lodz to
make money and to have fun."
--from The Brothers Ashkenazi,
by I. J. Singer
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Photos Before and During World War I
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Jewish
shopkeepers in front of their shops, 1915
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Boiling
dishes before Passover, 1915
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The
Jewish fish market, 1915
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Typical
flea market scenery, 1915
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Jewish
knife grinder at work, 1915
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Ultra
orthodox Jews walking to synagogue, 1915
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German
Jewish soldiers gathered for prayers near the Great Synagogue in 1916
(during WWI), view
2 and close-up
of view 2
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Young
peddlers posing for a German soldier, 1916
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Jews
gathered near sales stands, 1916
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View
of the fish market, 1916
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Newsboys
awaiting latest edition, 1916
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Jewish
workers near Russian posters, 1916
and close-up
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More
photos from the archives of the Ghetto Fighters' Museum of the Holocaust
and Resistance
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Photos During Inter-War Period
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 Class
Photos from schools in Lodz.
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 Photo
of three unknown girls. Who are they?
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Rosa
Cyger Kempner's unveiling in the New Lodz Cemetery (late 1930's)
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Jewish
vocational school, 1928View
of city and map, ca. 1930
- Street
scene of pedestrians, 1930
- Members
of Ha-Shomer ha-Za'ir at a meeting, 1930
- Zionist
pioneers prior to immigrating to Palestine, 1 April 1933
- Zionist
youth groups parade on Lag B'Omer, May 1933
and at
an assembly
- Zionist
group celebrating Passover, April 1934
- "Bilu,"
a Zionist urban commune of sock makers, 1935
- The
"Borochov" sports team, 1935
- More
photos from the archives of the Ghetto Fighters' Museum of the Holocaust
and Resistance
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Ketubbah
from Lodz, Poland, 1923. Groom: Shlomo ben David Zev Wolf; Bride:
Devorah bat Moshe Yosef; Witness 1: Elchanan ben Hillel; Witness 2: Yitzchak
ben Tzvi Yehudah.
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Ketubbah
from Lodz, Poland, 1931. Groom: Shmuel Eliyahu ben Yisrael Yitzchak;
Bride: Rachel bat Yaakov Moshe HaKohen; Witness 1: Chanoch ben Alter;
Witness 2: Yehudah Leib ben Efraiyim Fishel.
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"The
apartment house we lived in had a front building with two large doors
leading to our yard, two apartment buildings on each side, and the
toilet building was all the way in the back. By being enclosed on all
four sides it created our yard (this was not to be taken lightly). Our
yard was our football stadium, our skating ring, and our dreamland.
There were over 119 families, all Jewish except the janitor. Living
there, with each family having more than two children, this was our
dreamland."
--from The
Return to Lodz - Biographical Episodes, by Victor Breitburg |
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