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19 unusual facts about Łódź


Carroll Glenn

The tour, sponsored by the US State Department and the Polish Art Agency, had Freeman conduct concerts with the orchestras in Katowice, Bydgoszcz, Łódź, Poznań, Warsaw, and Kraków.

Czarnieckiego Prison

Czarnieckiego (or Czarneckiego) Prison in Łódź within Ghetto Litzmannstadt, historic site no longer in existence, mentioned in World War II literature

Dzielnica

Łódź, Wrocław and Poznań are each divided into five districts of this type.

Grand Theatre, Łódź

Teatr Wielki w Łodzi (The Grand Theater in Łódź) is an opera house in Łódź, Poland.

Jerzy Konorski

Jerzy Konorski (December 1, 1903 in Łódź, Poland – November 14, 1973 in Warsaw, Poland) was a Polish neurophysiologist who further developed the work of Ivan Pavlov by discovering secondary conditioned reflexes and operant conditioning.

Judith Thompson

Productions of the play have been held in a wide variety of North American locations, including: Toronto, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Portland and Vancouver, but also Łódź, Poland.

Kazimierz Serocki

He studied composition with Kazimierz Sikorski and piano with Stanisław Szpinalski at the State Higher School of Music in Łódź and graduated in 1946.

Kazimierz Sikorski

He was rector of the State Higher School of Music in Łódź.

Loki – Wizja Dźwięku

A music video for the song was shot by Mateusz Winkiel in an Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Łódź.

Lwów Ghetto

On the eve of World War II, the city of Lwów had the third-largest Jewish population in Poland, after Warsaw and Łódź, 99,600 in 1931 (32%) by confession criteria (percent of people of Jewish faith) and numbering 75,300 (24%) by language criteria (percent of people speaking Yiddish or Hebrew as their mother tongue), according to Polish official census.

National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art

The School closely cooperates with many schools of similar type; among them are Juilliard (USA), Detmold, Viernheim, Weimar and Vasario 16-osios (Germany), Łódź and Kraków (Poland).

Piotr Tomaszewski

Although he only received fourth prize, Tomaszewski was the only Polish competitor at the 1998 Alexandre Tansman International Competition for Musical Personalities, held in Łódź.

Polish YMCA

Interwar period there was time of activity of supply organization, growth of amount of members, as well as stockpiling of property- solid headquarters of organization emerged in Kraków, Łódź, Warsaw and Gdynia.

Robert Zajonc

Robert Boleslaw Zajonc, an only child, was born in Łódź, Poland on November 23, 1923.

Stanisław Jaśkiewicz

Along the years, he was part of the regular cast in the Warsaw Elizeum Theater (at 1931), the Lemberg Municipal Theater (from 1932 to 1938), the Pohulanka Theater in Warsaw (1938–41), the Łódź Soldiers' House Theater (1946–47), the Zygmunt Hübner Theater in Warsaw (1947-9), the Modernist Warsaw Theater (1949-1957) and the Polish Theatre (1957–75).

Stanisław Kuczborski

Kuczborski obtained his high school diploma in 1930, at the Mikołaj Kopernik Boys’ High School in Łódź.

Things Could Be Worse

Renia and Josl Bensky grow up in the Polish town of Łódź, Poland.

Tonino Delli Colli

In 2005, Delli Colli was posthumously awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 13th annual Camerimage Film Festival in Łódź, Poland.

Władysław Raczkowski

Władysław Raczkowski (19 May 1893, Wartkowice, Congress Poland – 1 July 1959, Łódź) was a Polish conductor and composer.


Andy Heathcote

He has attended the Northern Film School and the Polish National Film School in Łódź.

Anita Błochowiak

A native of the town of Pabianice, the seat of Pabianice County, within the metropolitan area of Łódź, the nation's third-largest city, Anita Błochowiak was elected, on 23 September 2001, as a member of the Democratic Left Alliance, to represent Sieradz district 11 in the Sejm.

Battle of Borowa Góra

General Wiktor Thommée, who commanded Piotrków Operational Group of Łódź Army, ordered Colonel Czyżewski to defend a 25-kilometer line in the area of Rozprza.

Chaim Janowski

After the First World War, he played in a team match Warsaw vs. Łódź (lost two games to Dawid Przepiórka) in 1922.

Chełmno Trials

The first judicial trial of the former SS men – members of the SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof – took place in 1945 at the District Court in Łódź, Poland.

Częstochowa Ghetto

--Olsztyn village, now housing estate in Bełchatów-->, Mstów, Janów, Przyrów, as well as hundreds of expellees from Polish lands annexed into the Reich at the beginning of war, mostly from Płock and Łódź.

David Beigelman

He wrote the music for Julius Adler's operettas Dos Skoytn-meydl and Di mume Gnendil and Yankev Vaksman (1866-1942)'s 's Di Sheyne Berta, all of which were staged in Łódź, and arranged the music for S. Ansky's The Dybbuk.

Gostków

Nowy Gostków, a village in Gmina Wartkowice, Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship

Grażyna Bacewicz

She returned briefly to Poland to teach in Łódź, but returned to Paris in 1934 in order to study with the Hungarian violinist Carl Flesch (Thomas 2001).

Keser Torah Radomsk

Soon after the Rebbe's announcement, eight yeshivas were opened – in Będzin, Podgórz, Kshanov, Valbaram, Ushpazin, Czanstechav, Łódź and Kraków.

Łódź Fabryczna railway station

Construction of the Łódź - Koluszki railway line began on September 1, 1865 after authorization was obtained from Tsar Alexander II in July 1865.

Maria Piotrowiczowa

Maria Piotrowiczowa, a January insurgent, participant of the battle of Dobra (the Łódź province), born in 1839, killed on 24 February 1863.

Ming Fay

Exhibitions have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris (New York, NY), the National Academy Museum (New York, NY), Museum of Contemporary Art in Shanghai, Łódź Biennale at The International Artists’ Museum (Łódź, Poland), Butters Gallery (Portland, Oregon), Ramapo Gallery (Ramapo, New Jersey) and the Hong Kong Museum of Art.

Modzelewski

Stanisław Modzelewski, Polish serial killer active in Łódź, Poland during the 1960s

Moishe Broderzon

His father moved to Łódź; his mother took her children to her father's home in Nesvizh (Nieswiez), Belorussia.

Nalepa

Nalepa, Łódź Voivodeship, a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Czastary, within Wieruszów County, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Obwodnica Trójmiejska

It enables traveling up to Grudziądz using a motorway, and when the A1 is completed it will connect Gdańsk, through Toruń, Łódź and Katowice to the Czech border in the south.

PIONIER

Currently the network connects Białystok, Bielsko-Biała, Bydgoszcz, Częstochowa, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Kielce, Kraków, Lublin, Łódź, Opole, Poznań, Puławy, Radom, Toruń, Warsaw, Wrocław, Koszalin, Szczecin, Olsztyn and Zielona Góra with a fiber-optic 10 Gbit/s patch-cord, and consists of 5738,86 km of optical fiber.

During the experiment Poznań, Łódź and Gdańsk were connected and the 34 Mbit/s ATM network in an 622 Mbit/s SDH environment has been created and since then called POL-34.

Piotrkowski

Piotrków County, powiat piotrkowski, unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Łódź Voivodeship, central Poland

Proba

Próba, Łódź Voivodeship, village in the administrative district of Gmina Brzeźnio, within Sieradz County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland.

Przywidz

Przywidz, Łódź Voivodeship, a village in Poddębice County, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland

Rape during the liberation of Poland

In a letter to his Voivode, a Łódź county starosta warned that plunder of goods from stores and farms, was often accompanied by the rape of farmhands as in Zalesie, Olechów, Feliksin and Huta Szklana, not to mention other crimes, including murder-rape in Łagiewniki.

Rewolucyjni Mściciele

The group expanded from Łódź to many other towns in the Russian partition of Poland: Warsaw, Częstochowa, Kraków, Radom, Kielce, Sosnowiec, Będzin, Ostrów, Kalisz, Żyrardów and Zgierz.

Robert Zajonc

In 1939, before the Nazi invasion of Poland reached Łódź, his family fled to Warsaw.

Silesian Voivodeship

The voivodship capital enjoys good railway and road connections with Gdańsk (motorway A1) and Ostrava (motorway A1), Kraków (motorway A4), Wrocław (motorway A4), Łódź (motorway A1) and Warsaw.

Urszula Modrzyńska

In the 1970s she played only smaller parts in movies by young directors, as in Droga w świetle księżyca by Witold Orzechowski (1972), Rozmowa by Piotr Andrejew (1974), and Zdjęcia Próbne by Agnieszka Holland, Paweł Kędzierski and Jerzy Domaradzki (1976), concentrating on her theater work at Nowy Theater in Łódź.

Warsaw Railway Junction

In 1902 the broad gauge Warsaw–Kalisz Railway was constructed on the left bank of the Vistula river connecting Warsaw through Łódź to Kalisz and later extended to the border of the Prussian controlled Province of Posen.

White Factory

In the first half of the 19th century Łódź, which was a part of the Russian Empire and previously a small town, experienced a rapid economic and industrial development.