Lodzer Landsmanshaften and
Foundations
Locations
*The American
Jewish Historical Society in Waltham, Massachusetts, houses
Landsmanschaft
Manuscript Collections (look under "Lodzer" to view specific
manuscripts held).
NOTE:
In countries where contact information for a Lodz landsmanshaft was not
found, genealogical society information is provided. Please enclose a self-addressed
envelope and return postage (2 international postal reply coupons for air
mail or local postage) with your mailed request.
The Organization of Former Residents of
Lodz in Israel
Contact:
Mr. Abraham Zelig, Secretary
General
Office of Former Residents of
Lodz in Israel
158 Dizengoff Street
Tel Aviv 63461
Israel
Phone: 972-(0)3-524-1833
Fax: 972-(0)3-523-8126
Published books:
Lodz -
Names: List of the Ghetto Inhabitants, 1940-1944 (other titles:
Lodz
- shemot: reshimat toshvei ha-geto, 1940-1944; Shemot Lodz). Jerusalem:
Yad Vashem and the Organization of Former Residents of Lodz in Israel:
1994
Lodz/Names. Jerusalem: the
Organization of Former Residents of Lodz in Israel, 1989.
OFRLI maintains two valuable databases:
1) A list of the 200,000
residents of the Lodz ghetto, from February 1940 to August 1944. This list
was published in 1994 as Lodz - Names: List of
the Ghetto Inhabitants, 1940-1944.
2) A list of the 180,000 records
of the Jewish cemetery on ul. Bracka and Zmienna, from 1892 through the
liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944. This list is also maintained
by the Jewish Community of Lodz.
Poland
The Jewish Community of Lodz
Contact:
Mr. Symcha Keller
Gmina Wyznaniowa Zydowska
ul. Pomorska 18
Lodz 90-201, Poland
Phone: 48-42-6320427
Fax: 48-42-6335156
The Jewish Community Office maintains
a list of the 180,000 records of the cemetery on ul. Bracka and Zmienna,
from 1892 through the liquidation of the ghetto in August 1944. This list
is also maintained by OFRLI.
Monumentum Iudaicum Lodzense Foundation
(Foundation in Memory of the Jews of Lodz) Established in 1995 by OFRLI
and the City of Lodz
Purpose: to restore the Jewish
Cemetery and other remains of Jewish culture in Lodz
Contact:
Monumentum
Iudaicum Lodzense Foundation
ul. Piotrkowska 104
Lodz 90-926, Poland
Phone: 48-42-384080
Fax: 48-42-384124
President:
Mr. Arnold Mostowicz
Branch in Israel:
Mr. Zeev Faktor
OFRLI (see address above)
Branch in France:
Mr. Josele Wajsblatt
Paris
France
Les amis de Lodz-Katzenelson
President:
M. Louis Friedman
Phone: 01.48.78.71.29
Before contacting the genealogical
societies below, please read the JewishGen
infofiles on France.
GenAmi
Ms. Micheline Gutmann, President
Association for International
Jewish Genealogy
76 rue de Passy
75016 Paris
France
Email: MichelineGutmann@compuserve.com
Cercle
de Genealogie Juive
Ms. Claudie Blamont, President
United Kingdom
The Lodzer Benefit Society
6 Houndsditch E.
London, England
(inactive)
Lodz Synagogue,
ca. 1898 London
(See Lodzers
in London for further information.)
The London
Metropolitan Archives Library holds source material on the Federation
Synagogues among which are the collection
books of the Lodz Synagogue, ca. 1898, with members names and addresses.
(Above contributed by Aubrey Jacobus,
Email:
Aubrey@Jacobyte.com
)
Polish Jewish Ex-servicemen's
Association
12 Antrim Grove
London NW3 4XR
UK
Chairman: L. Kurzer; Vice Chairman:
L. Feit; H. Secretary: L. Kleiner- H.T.J. Tigner (Established
in 1945 to aid and protect Polish-Jewish ex-Servicemen in the United Kingdom,
look after the interests of Polish-Jewish refugees and perpetuate the memory
of Jewish martyrs of Nazi persecution.)
Polish Jewish Refugee Fund
143 Brondesbury Pk.
London NW2 5JL
UK
Phone: 44 181-451 3425
Chairman: W. Schindler; H.
T. W. Landau; Secretary: Mrs. R. Gluckstein
(Above contributed by David Lewin,
Email:
davidlewin@bigfoot.com)
Jewish
Genealogical Society of Great Britain
(be sure to check "The Poor Jews'
Temporary Shelter Database" at this web site)
PO Box 13288
London, N3 3WD
UK
Email: enquiries@jgsgb.org.uk
For a complete list of Lodzer burial societies and cemeteries
in the New York Metropolitan Area, search
the database of the Jewish Genealogical Society, Inc.
Lodzer Young Men's Benevolent
Society of New York, Inc.
(Established November 2, 1902)
Contact:
Mr. Sol Frydman, President
Phone: 718-261-5886
Cemeteries used by Landsmanschaft:
Mount Hebron Cemetery
13004 Horace Harding Expy.
Flushing, NY 11367
(718) 939-9405
Baron Hirsch Cemetery
1126 Richmond Ave.
Staten Island, NY 10314
(718) 698-0162
- American Research Council to Commemorate the
Jewish Community of
Lodz
- Contact (as of the 1980s):
1140 Avenue of the Americas, Suite 707
New York, NY 10036
Committee (as of the 1980s): David Klein, Chaim Hertz, Yechiel Ben Tzion Fishchak, Efraim Klein, Shimon Bensh, Shlome Kern, Yakov Hertz, Rabbi Yitzchak Levin, Rabbi Baruch Leizerovski, Zisha Hartzshtark, Yosef Friedenson, Rabbi Elimelech Shwartz, Lazer Hendlesh, Yedidia Lipmanowitz, Shmuel Shwartzman, Leib Shtahl, Meir Shtahl, Avraham and Meir Weisenfeld
Jewish
Genealogical Society, Inc.
P.O. Box 6398
New York, NY 10128
USA
Email: jgsny@aol.com
Independent Lodzer Young
Men's and Women's Society of Paterson (New Jersey)
Contact:
Mr. Abe Peck
8-05 Sixth Street
Fair Lawn, New Jersey 07410
Phone: 201-797-5386
This organization began as the Lodzer
Benevolent Association, with its establishment in the early 1900s.
In 1928, an arm of it broke away and became the Independent Lodzer Young
Men's Society with a separate Ladies' Auxiliary. About
20 years ago, the present organization was formed. Many Lodzers settled
in Paterson due to a thriving textile industry there.
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30th Anniversary
Journal of the
Independent Lodzer Young Men Society
(Held
at the Fair Lawn Jewish Center, January 18, 1958)
Herb Gold scanned and provided this publication that
contains names of officers, lists of other Lodz descendants, many
from families that first settled in Paterson, NJ, several
photographs, In Memoriam section, and journal
ads,
which often include businesses with addresses and names.
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Associated Society of Lodz
Contact: (no contact information)
Cemetery used by Lodzer
landsmanschaften:
Riverside Cemetery
12 Market St.
Saddle Brook, NJ 07663
P.O. Box 177
Rochelle Park, NJ 07662
Phone: 201-843-7600
(Bergen County)
The Lodzer Organization
of California
Harry Eisen, President (as of 2000)
Contact:
Ms. Lidia Budgor
16375 Sloan Dr.
Bel Air, CA 90049
USA
Phone: 818-986-1268
The
"1939" Club
8950
West Olympic Boulevard, #437
Beverly
Hills, California 90211
USA
Phone:
310-286-1939
Web site: http://www.1939club.com/index.html
Lodzer Umgegend Verein
Chicago, Illinois
Contact: (no information)
Canada
Lodzer Centre Congregation
12 Heaton St.
Downsview, Ontario
Canada M3H 4Y6
(Synagogue established in 1953 and
led by survivors of the Lodz ghetto)
Phone: (416) 636-6665
Fax: (416) 636-8861
Web site: http://www.feduja.org/commserv/organize/0237.stm
and
http://www.jewishbookoflife.com/pages/reserved/lodzcongtoronto.htm
Email: michael@jewishbookoflife.com
Cemeteries used by landsmanshaft:
Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park /
Woods Cemetery
10 Dewlane Dr.
North York, Ontario
Canada M2R 3G5
Phone: (416) 223-1373
Pardes Shalom / Toronto Hebrew
Memorial Park
Dufferin St.
Vaughan, Ontario
Canada
Phone: (416) 635-2883
Jewish Genealogical Society of
Canada, Toronto Division
Mr. Henry Wellisch
P.O. Box 446, Station "A"
Willowdale, Ontario
Canada M2N 5T1
Phone: (416) 638-3280
Additional Contact:
Federation of Greater Toronto
Holocaust Remembrance Committee
4600 Bathurst Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M2R 3V3
Phone: (416) 635-2883
Lodzer
Farband of Montreal
Contact: (no information)
Cemetery used by Landsmanschaft:
Mount Pleasant Cemetery
5505 bas St. Francois
Duvernay, Quebec
Canada
Phone: (514) 661-7016
Australia
- Lodzer Centre, Australia
Contact:
- Jewish
Holocaust Museum and Research Centre (Melbourne)
- 13 Selwyn St.
- Elsternwick, Australia
Phone: (61) (03) 9528 1985
Additional Contact:
Mr. Abraham Cykiert
Published book:
Yiddish Lodz: A Yizkor Book.
Melbourne: Lodzer Centre, 1974
Jewish
Genealogy in Australia Web Site: includes Australian Jewish Genealogical
Society
Brazil
Association of Lodz Jews
in Brazil
Contact:
Mr. Michel (Mischel) A. Wojdyslawski,
Chairman (as of 1994)
(address unavailable)
- Holocaust Survivors Organization in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil.
Aleksander H. Laks, Chairman (as of 2000) and survivor of the Lodz ghetto
Rua Tonelero 356
- 1001 Rio de Janeiro
- 22030-000 Brazil
- Phone: (21) 2554909
- Email: aleksanderlaks@uol.com.br
Jewish Genealogical Society of
Brazil:
Sociedade Genealogica Judaica
do Brazil
Dr. Guilherme Faiguenboim
Rua Jardim Ivone 17 #23
04105-020 Sao Paolo
Brazil
Phone: 574-8554
Email: faiguen@ibm.net
Argentina
Tsentral Farband fun
Poylishe Yidn in Argentine
Buenos Aires, Argentina
(society may be inactive)
Published Books:
Tabaksblat, Israel. Hurbn-Lodzsh,
6 yor Natsi-gehenem (Destruccion de Lodz; The Destruction of Lodz).
Buenos-Ayres: Tsentral-Farband fun Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1946. (in
Yiddish; Series: Dos Poylishe Yidntum, Bd. 5; illustrated)
Tenenbaum-Arazi, Avraham. Lodzsh
un ire Yidn (Lodz and its Jews). Buenos-Ayres: Tsentral-farband fun
Poylishe Yidn in Argentine, 1956. (in Yiddish; Series: Dos Poylishe
Yidntum)
To locate relatives in Argentina,
contact:
Ana E. Weinstein, Director
Federation of Jewish Communities
in Argentina
E-mail: vhakeilot@infovia.com.ar
Jewish
Genealogical Research in Argentina (JewishGen Infofile)
The
Jewish Genealogical Society of Argentina (JewishGen
infofile)
Contact:
Paul Armony, President
Asociacion
de Genealogia Judia de Argentina
Juana Azurduy 2223 piso
8
(1429) Buenos Aires
Argentina
E-mail: genarg@infovia.com.ar
(Genealogia Judia Argentina)
South Africa
The Chairman
Jewish Genealogical Society of
Johannesburg
PO Box 1388
Parklands 2121
South Africa
Phone: +2711 4427048
Email: elion@iafrica.com
Email (Secretary): hannah@fast.co.za
The Chairman
Jewish Genealogical Society of
Cape Town
Jewish Museum
84 Hatfield Street
Gardens
Cape Town 8001
South Africa
Phone: +2721 451546 or
4381333
Email: jewmus@gem.co.za
Thank you to David Lewin
and Michael
J. Meshenberg for their contributions to this list.
Additions or corrections, e-mail:
Roni Seibel
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