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Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 16 (2020), Pages: 13-17
Submission Date: 2020-10-28Publication Date: 2020-12-09
Abstract
The Łódź ghetto was established 80 years ago by order of the German authorities. One third of the city’s population was detained there and subjected to extermination. Wohngebiet der Juden — Jewish residential quarter — for that was how the ghetto located in Bałuty and the Old Town was euphemistically called, became the place of the ordeal of approx. 200,000 people from Łódź, nearby towns, and inhabitants of towns in the Reich and the Protectorate. Their tragic fate is undoubtedly one of the most important events in the social history of Łódź.
The said anniversary was a pretext for offering our readers this particular main theme of the 16th issue of the Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały periodical. But this was not our only inspiration. There has been more and more interest in the Łódź “closed quarter” in the scholarly world and mass culture in Poland and abroad, which has translated into a wide range of topics discussed. This publication undertakes to present at least part of the current state of research and/or the map of the topics taken up by representatives of various disciplines. Because of the subject dicussed in this issue, our editorial staff was joined by scholars associated with the Jewish Research Center of the University of Łódź, which is a co-publisher of this issue of our annual. We are convinced that this will contribute to an integration of the milieu of Holocaust scholars and will be the next step on the path to cooperation between the Warsaw and Łódź research centers.
Keywords
Lodz , ghetto , Litzmanstadt Ghetto , Marian Turski
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