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Łódź [a] is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located 120 km (75 mi) south-west of Warsaw. [8] As of 2023, Łódź has a population of 655,279, [1] making it the country's fourth largest city . Łódź first appears in records in 14th-century.
Łódź, city, capital of Łódzkie województwo (province), central Poland. It lies on the northwestern edge of the Łódź Highlands, on the watershed of the Vistula and Oder rivers, 81 miles (130 km) southwest of Warsaw. Łódź is mentioned in 14th-century records as a village. It acquired municipal rights.
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Aug 9, 2021 · More information about this image. The city of Łódź (Lodz) is located about 85 miles southwest of Warsaw, Poland. The Jews of Lodz formed the second largest Jewish community in prewar Poland, after Warsaw. German troops occupied Lodz on September 8, 1939. This was one week after Germany invaded Poland on September 1.
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- Jewish Cemetery. Łódź's Jewish cemetery was founded in 1892 and today is a haunting destination. The largest Jewish graveyard in Europe, it contains around 68,000…
- City Museum of Łódź. Adjacent to the Manufaktura mall, this museum is housed in the impressive palace of 19th-century textile baron Izrael Kalmanowicz Poznański.
- Centre for Science & Technology. Part of the EC1 complex that forms the heart of Łódź's city centre redevelopment plan, this former coal-fired power station (dating from the early 1900s)…
- Narodziny Dnia. A courtyard brilliantly covered in the fantastical imaginings of Polish artist Wojciech Siudmak – imps, harlequins and brightly coloured birds.
- Manufaktura. A showpiece for the city centre’s regeneration over the last 25 years, Manufaktura is a mall and leisure complex incorporating former textile factories.
- Ulica Piotrkowska. Just shy of five kilometres long, Ulica Piotrkowska is Łódź’s main thoroughfare and one of the longest pedestrian streets in the world.
- Radegast Train Station. In the Bałuty district, Radegast Train Station was the point of departure to the Auschwitz and Chelmno extermination camps. Some 200,000 Jews from the Łódź Ghetto and all over Poland, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and the former Sudetenland came through this point.
- Central Museum of Textiles. Textile manufacturing was just a cottage industry in Łódź until facilities like the White Factory cropped up in the 1830s.
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