Jewish Lodz Today

Contents

• Travel to Poland: A Search for Roots
• The Jewish Community Today
• City Guide

Statue of Moses in Lodz, 1998

The single surviving synagogue of Lodz, 1998

Travel to Poland: A Search for Roots

• Jewish Lodz Guidebooks
• The Return to Lodz - Biographical Episodes, by Victor Breitburg, survivor of the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz, and one of "The Boys"; life in Poland before and after the Holocaust and a return journey, 52 years later
• Lili Susser, author and survivor of the Lodz ghetto and Auschwitz, describes a return visit to her hometown of Lodz in her short story, Our 1974 European Tour.
• Tracing your Roots in Poland, a Travelogue, by Leonard Markowitz
• Diary of a Journey to Lodz, Auschwitz and Krakow, 1998, by Howard Rosen; with photos of Lodz and its cemetery, Lask cemetery, Auschwitz, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Krakow 
• Inside Poland Web Site

The Jewish Community Today

• "Letter from Lodz", by Professor John Crust, who is teaching a course in Jewish-American literature in Poland. This piece, originally written for a Canadian Jewish newspaper, is a first-hand description of Jewish life and Jewish-Polish relations in Lodz today.
• Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense Foundation, includes information on current activities: ghetto documents discovered in the Lodz archives, effort to make the Lodz Jewish Cemetery a UNESCO World Heritage Site and restitution of Jewish property.
• The Biographical Dictionary "Jews of the Old Lodz."
• The Web Site of the Jewish Community of Poland, including the Union of Jewish Religious Communities, Social and Cultural Associations and Polish Union of Jewish Students

City Guide

• The Centre of the City and its Region: Zielona and Narutowiczna Streets Restructuring Concept, the Instytut Architektury Iurbanistyki Pl (Polish version available); see related list of links
• Poznanski's Palace, now the Muzeum Historii Miasta Łodzi (in Polish); photos of the home, factory and mausoleum of leading Lodz industrialist, Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznanski
• Lodz Landmarks (in Polish)
• City Council of Lodz Official Home Page (in Polish or English)
• Lodz Museum of Art