Coming from the Piotrkowska (down in the middle of the map) and after crossing the Park Staromiesky you hit ulicy Wolborskiej where the former Jewish quarter, later the ghetto and nowadays Stare Baluty starts.
More or less everything above these line (and visible on the map) is where we planned to focuse on for our project.
On Wolborskiej 20 stood the Orthodox Synagogue "Altshtot" . It was the oldests synagogue in Lodz, first constructed entirely from wood, later relocated and replaced with stone in 1860 - 1863.
Burnt down by the Nazis at the night of November 15-16, 1939, so - notice! - even before there was a ghetto established.
No trace of the synagogue remains today.
Click here to see how this synagogue was build . For me this is also a kind of a map and in this case certainly one with a dramatic impact.
See more about this Stara Synagogyue on Wolborska 20 and all other synagogues in Lodz.
See also the very impressive list of Synagogues, prayer houses and others.
See more about this Stara Synagogyue on Wolborska 20 and all other synagogues in Lodz.
See also the very impressive list of Synagogues, prayer houses and others.
Furthermore I found a particular "map" of the old ghetto.
It had been made by:
Leon Jakubowicz, a shoemaker by training and a native of Lodz, began constructing this model of the Lodz ghetto soon after his arrival there from a prisoner-of-war camp in April 1940. The case holds a scale (1:5000) model of the ghetto, including streets, painted houses, bridges, churches, synagogue ruins, factories, cemeteries, and barbed wire around the ghetto edges. The model pieces are made from scrap wood. The case cover interior is lined with a collection of official seals, a ration card, and paper money, and the case exterior is covered with metal coins.
And here a more detailed version of the same model
Next you will find all important information about Lodz with (at the right-hand side) a map of Poland in which Lodz is situated in the middle.
Finally - zooming out - maps of Poland itself:
Finally the sky opens, the clouds move, sun shines and life is bright!! But...but what is that noise in the background?? Marchierende Lustige Stiefeln??
ReplyDeleteI am afraid so, Yes
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