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- The town’s rapid expansion resulted in a population of 500,000 inhabitants by 1913.
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The town’s rapid expansion resulted in a population of 500,000 inhabitants by 1913. Łódź ghetto Judenrat. A meeting of the department heads of the Judenrat (“Jewish Council”) for the Łódź ghetto in German-occupied Poland. (more) When Łódź became part of newly independent Poland after World War I, it lost its large Russian market.
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In 1913, Łódź had a population of 506,100 people, of whom 251,700 (49.7%) were Poles, 171,900 (34%) were Jews, 75,000 (14.8%) were Germans, and 6,300 (1.3%) were Russians. According to the 1931 Polish census , the total population of 604,000 included 375,000 (59%) Poles, 192,000 (32%) Jews and 54,000 (9%) Germans.
Despite the impending crisis preceding World War I, Łódź grew exponentially and was one of the world's most densely populated industrial cities, with a population density of 13,200 inhabitants per square kilometre (34,000/sq mi) by 1914.
Within less than a century, the population had grown a thousand-fold (see Figure 1). 14 The Role of Minorities in the Development of Lodz In the con- text of the institutional factors decisive for ...
Łódź first appears in written records in 1332 under the name of Łodzia. In 1423 King Władysław Jagiełło grants city rights to the village of Łódź. The town remains no more than a rural backwater for the following centuries, with a population numbering just 800 as late as the 16th Century.
Its population grew explosively, reaching 500,000 by 1913. As it became an industrial city, Łódź also became a center of Jewish culture in Poland. The Germans who invaded the city in September 1939 soon made it the site of one of the largest of the Jewish ghettos of World War II.
Jan 28, 2010 · Łódź attracted Jews from throughout Russian Poland and the tsarist Pale of Settlement. The city’s Jewish population increased from about 10,000 in 1873 to nearly 100,000 in 1897. By 1914, Łódź was home to more than 500,000 people, including 170,000 Jews.
