Overview
- Brief Narrative
- 1942 map of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), Poland with an alphabetical street directory. The city had been occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany one week after the September 1, 1939, invasion. The Germans renamed the city Litzmannstadt, after the General Karl Litzmann, who had conquered the city during World War I. Łódź had the second largest Jewish population in Poland and, in February 1940, they were relocated to a small, closed ghetto. By September 1942, 70,000 Jews, neary half the population, had been deported to the Chelmno killing center. The ghetto was emptied by mass deportations and destroyed in August 1944.
- Date
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publication/distribution:
1942
- Geography
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depiction:
Litzmannstadt-Getto (Łódź, Poland);
Łódź (Poland)
- Credit Line
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gil Rosenberg
- Markings
- front, upper right, title, black ink; top 5 lines, black ink; bottom line, red ink : Plan / von / Litzmannstadt / Maßstab 1:20000 / scale / AUSGABE 1942
front center, bottom border, black ink : Verlag: Buchhandlung S.Seipelt G.m.b.H., Litzmannstadt.
front lower left corner under map legend, black ink : Ausgeführt von Erwin Thiem
front lower right corner, black ink : T/0104 / Druck: B.Kotkowski & Co A.G. / LITZMANNSTADT, HAULÄNDER-STR. 18.
front, on map over corresponding districts, red ink : RADEGAST / WALDBORN / KARLSHOF / STOCKHOF / ERZHAUSEN / FRIEDRICHSHAGEN / EFFINGSHAUSEN / NORD / WEST / OST / SÜD
Physical Details
- Language
- German
- Classification
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Information Forms
- Category
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Maps
- Object Type
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Maps (lcsh)
- Physical Description
- Paper street map with German text and graphics in in black, blue, gray, green, and red ink. It is in portrait orientation with the map outline in black with a white border. There are identifying marks for the parks, water features, railroad, and cemeteries and the different districts within and outside the city are highlighted with red labels. The title is in the upper right corner and there is a legend in the lower left corner. On the reverse is an alphabetical directory of the streets with corresponding map locations in black ink.
- Dimensions
- overall: Height: 37.125 inches (94.298 cm) | Width: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm)
- Materials
- overall : paper, ink
- Inscription
- front, upper right border, pencil : 400.-
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- No restrictions on access
- Conditions on Use
- No restrictions on use
Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Łódź.
- Geographic Name
- Łódź (Poland)--Maps. Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The map of Litzmannstadt was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Gil Rosenberg.
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 18:29:59
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn523618
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