Lodz Streets
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The Lodz Streets Database includes the name of all streets in the city of Lodz
over the past approximately 100 years. During this time period, most names were
changed at least once and some were changed up to five times. This database is
intended as an aid in tracing streets in Lodz or the Lodz ghetto where your
family members once lived.
Perhaps
you have discovered that your family's business, listed in the 1929 Polish
Business Directory, was located on "Aleksandrowska Street." A search
of Lodz Streets Database will indicate
that "Aleksandrowska Street" is now known as "Limanowskiego
Street." Or, perhaps you are tracing a family member who was incarcerated
in the Lodz ghetto between 1940 and 1944, and have found they lived on
"Baluter Ring." A search of the database will tell you that street is
now known as "Rynek Balucki."
Source
of the Database
The Lodz Streets Database was created by comparing six maps of the city of Lodz:
- a
1913 Polish reprint of a Russian map
- an
original 1925 Polish map
- a
reprint of a 1933 Polish map
- an
original German map, dated approximately 1940
- an
original 1987 Polish map
- an
original 1999 Polish map
The
database therefore spans about 100 years, from approximately 1900 to the
present.
Geographic Area Included in the
Database
Streets
in the following districts of Lodz are included in the database. Streets located
in suburbs built after World War II are not included in the database. The
reason being there was no Jewish population in these areas.
The
vast majority of the pre-war Jewish population of Lodz lived in either the Sródmiescie
District or the Baluty District (including the Doly and Zubardz Districts). Streets incorporated into the Lodz ghetto were
entirely located in the Baluty district.
Districts
in the City of Lodz
|
Location
Within the City of Lodz
|
Chojny
|
South
|
Widzew
|
East
|
Zdrowie
|
West (part of
Podlesie District)
|
Podlesie
|
West
|
Sródmiescie
|
Center
|
Stoki
|
East (part of Widzew
District)
|
Doly
|
Northeast (part of
Baluty District)
|
Zubardz
|
Northwest (part of
Baluty District)
|
Data Included in the Database
The
database includes more than 560 Lodz streets and the changes in their names at
six points in time: 1913 (before World War I), 1925, 1933, 1939 (including the
Lodz ghetto), 1945 (after World War II), and 1990 (after the fall of Communism).
After the Lodz ghetto was established in 1940, some German street names were
changed into other German names. Both names are included in the database. As
parts of the former Lodz ghetto area were rebuilt after World War II, those
changes were included in the database. If the street no longer exists or did not
exist before 1925 or 1939, it is noted in the database.
Explanation of Fields in the
Database
Field
|
Heading
|
Description
|
I
|
1913
|
street names from
1900 through 1913 (and perhaps earlier).
|
II
|
1925
|
street names up to
and including 1925.
|
III
|
1933
|
street names up to
and including 1933; streets soon to become part of the Lodz ghetto are
highlighted in bold and yellow fill.
|
IV
|
1939
|
street names as
renamed after the German invasion in September 1939; streets in the Lodz
ghetto are highlighted in bold and yellow fill.
|
V
|
1945
|
streets as renamed
after the end of World War II.
|
VI
|
1990
|
streets as renamed
after the fall of Communism; up to the present.
|
The Lodz
Streets Database was created by noted Lodz researcher Petje Schröder.
Ms. Schröder extracted and compared information from the six
maps, then entered the data into a database format. The database will be
updated with any future changes, as they occur.
Abbreviation
|
Meaning
|
Translation
|
al.
|
aleja
|
avenue
|
ks.
|
ksiedza
|
priest
|
pl.
|
plac
|
square
|
str.
|
Strasse
|
street
|
sw.
|
swietego
|
Saint-
|
ul.
|
ulica
|
street
|
1-ego (Maja al.)
|
Labor Day
|
1st of May Avenue
|
6-ego (Sierpnia)
|
March-off of the
first cadre company of the Rifles (Legions)
|
6th of August (1914)
Street
|
8-ego (Marca)
|
Women's Day
|
8th of March Street
|
9-ego (Maja pl.)
|
Liberation* Day, end
of World War II
|
9th of May (1945)
Square
|
11-ego (Listopada)
|
World War I
Armistice Day
|
11th of November
(1918) Street
|
19-ego (Stycznia)
|
Liberation* of Lodz
|
19th of January
(1945) Street
|
22-ego (Lipca)
|
Manifesto of the
Polish Committee of the People's Liberation* in Lublin
|
22nd of July (1944)
Street
|
*Liberation: As the liberation by the Russians introduced another period of occupation and
dictatorship, only communistic Poles have ever celebrated these days.
Special Notes for Lodz Ghetto
Researchers
As
an additional aid to researchers, an alphabetical list
of streets in the Lodz ghetto, with abbreviations, is provided. This is
particularly valuable for those who have obtained street names from the register
of the 200,000 Lodz ghetto inhabitants, Lodz-Names:
List of the Ghetto Inhabitants, 1940-1944, published jointly by Yad
Vashem and the Organization of Former Residents of Lodz in Israel in 1994. Most
of these German street names are abbreviated. Therefore, if you have obtained a
street name from this resource, you must first locate the unabbreviated German
street name in the alphabetical list of streets in the
Lodz ghetto before conducting a search in the Lodz Streets
Database.
Further
information about Jewish Lodz, including maps of the city and surrounding area,
may be obtained from the Lodz
ShtetLinks web site. Questions may be directed to the
Lodz Area Research Group Mailing List.
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