Place · Eastern Europe
Lodz
Industrial center and Bund electoral base.
51.7769°N 19.4494°E · representative coordinate · approximate · Natural Earth Łódź ↗
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In 1919, 160 Bundists won seats on Polish municipal councils.
Community: Lodz ghetto
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Second in size was Lodz, holding about 200,000 Jews; third was Lvov, holding about 120,000.
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On 4 September 1942 Chaim Rumkowski asked the Lodz ghetto to hand over children and the elderly, saying limbs must be cut off to save the body.
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Lodz was the last ghetto liquidated; in August 1944, 70,000 Jews still remained, and the Red Army halted 75 miles from the city.