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redakcja@holocaustresearch.plPolish Center for Holocaust Research, Center for Jewish Studies of Lodz University
Ewa Wiatr
ewa.wiatr@uni.lodz.pl Bioadjunct at the Jewish Research Centre of Łódź University. Research interests: history of the Jewish diaspora in Łódź and the Łódź area, chiefly during World War II and the Holocaust. Kronika getta łódzkiego, Encyklopedia getta łódzkiego, and the Judaica Łódzkie series. On her own, she edited Rywka Lipszyc’s diary (2017, Polityka [weekly] Historical Award, 2018), and in cooperation with Adam Sitarek, Dawid Sierakowiak’s (2016) Heniek Fogiel’s diary (2019). Currently working on a monograph on everyday life in the Łódź ghetto, an elaboration on her dissertation defended in 2018. Participated in the program “Lexicon of the Łódź Ghetto” carried out within the framework of National Programme for the Development of Humanities
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2675-0726
Center for Jewish Studies, University of Lodz
Adam Sitarek
adam.sitarek@uni.lodz.pl Biohistorian, adjunct at the Institute of History at the Jewish Research Centre of Łódź University, scholar of the Polish Center for Holocaust Research of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Research interests: the history of the closed district and Łódź under the occupation. Author of several publications on the Łódź ghetto, including the monograph, “Otoczone drutem państwo”. Struktura i funkcjonowanie administracji żydowskiej getta łódzkiego, wiiner of the Polityka weekly Historical Award in 2016 r. member of the editorial staff of Kronika getta łódzkiego (2009), and Encyklopedia getta łódzkiego (2015). Participated in the program “Lexicon of the Łódź Ghetto” carried out within the framework of National Programme for the Development of Humanities
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3958-7262
Center for Jewish Studies, University of Lodz
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 16 (2020), pages: 13-17
Publication 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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