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Jewish sports clubs of pre-war Łódź - Bar Kochba, Hakoah and champions of Poland Dziedzictwo żydowskie
Jewish sports clubs of pre-war Łódź - Bar Kochba, Hakoah and champions of Poland
Bar-Kochba and Hakoah, the Jewish sports clubs of prewar Łódź whose members became Polish champions in weightlifting and athletics.
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Bałuty that are gone - the Jewish district before the war Dziedzictwo żydowskie
Bałuty that are gone - the Jewish district before the war
What Bałuty, the heart of pre-war Jewish Łódź with its Old Market, synagogues and schools, looked like before it disappeared.
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Jewish Cemetery on Bracka Street in Łódź - how to visit and what to see Dziedzictwo żydowskie
Jewish Cemetery on Bracka Street in Łódź - how to visit and what to see
What to see at the New Jewish Cemetery on Bracka Street, from the Poznański mausoleum to the moving Ghetto Field.
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The ghetto in Łowicz and the Memorial Room of the Jews of Łowicz Dziedzictwo żydowskie
The ghetto in Łowicz and the Memorial Room of the Jews of Łowicz
The history of the Łowicz ghetto, built from a demolished synagogue's rubble and liquidated within a year, and its memorial sites today.
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The Ghetto in Tomaszów Mazowiecki - history of the Jewish district Dziedzictwo żydowskie
The Ghetto in Tomaszów Mazowiecki - history of the Jewish district
How Tomaszów Mazowiecki, where a third of residents were Jewish, saw a ghetto rise across three separate streets in 1940.
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Yitzhak Katzenelson - a Łódź educator and poet, author of one of the most important testimonies of the Holocaust Dziedzictwo żydowskie
Yitzhak Katzenelson - a Łódź educator and poet, author of one of the most important testimonies of the Holocaust
How Łódź educator and Hebrew theatre pioneer Yitzhak Katzenelson became, after fleeing to Warsaw, author of a key Holocaust testimony.
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Who was Chaim Rumkowski? Dziedzictwo żydowskie
Who was Chaim Rumkowski?
Who Chaim Rumkowski was, the controversial Elder of the Łódź ghetto who ran forced labour and helped organise residents' deportations.
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Chronicle of the Łódź ghetto - a unique document of everyday life the ghetto left about itself Dziedzictwo żydowskie
Chronicle of the Łódź ghetto - a unique document of everyday life the ghetto left about itself
How a team of chroniclers, ordered by Chaim Rumkowski, recorded daily life in the Łódź ghetto in a document unique across occupied Europe.
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Kutno - the ghetto in a former sugar factory and the Saxon Palace Dziedzictwo żydowskie
Kutno - the ghetto in a former sugar factory and the Saxon Palace
How one of the region's most overcrowded ghettos rose on the grounds of a disused sugar factory in Kutno, and how it is remembered today.
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March 1968 in Lodz Dziedzictwo żydowskie
March 1968 in Lodz
How the student rallies and antisemitic campaign of March 1968 unfolded in Łódź, where nearly 500 people were detained.
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Park Ocalałych (Park of Survivors) - a Łódź memorial and a place for a walk Dziedzictwo żydowskie
Park Ocalałych (Park of Survivors) - a Łódź memorial and a place for a walk
The story of Park Ocalałych in Łódź, created for the 60th anniversary of the ghetto's liquidation to honour the Righteous Among the Nations.
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The postwar rebuilding of the Jewish community in Łódź - the city that briefly became the centre of Jewish Poland Dziedzictwo żydowskie
The postwar rebuilding of the Jewish community in Łódź - the city that briefly became the centre of Jewish Poland
Why war-damaged but physically intact Łódź became postwar Poland's largest Jewish community for a few short years after 1945.
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