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The 3rd of May National Holiday celebration. A formal procession complete with marching band makes its way along Piotrkowska Street. The year 1922 is embroidered on the banner of the National Workers' Party (a political party with anti-Semitic…

Representatives of the armed forces, clerics, and members of various social and political associations took part in these 3rd of May parades, which were organized by city government. This kind of public festivity was wildly popular, as we can see…

This delousing facility was but one of many in Łódź at the time of the First World War. Official policy required boys and men being treated at such facilities to have their heads shaved. Here we see this service rendered by a man in medical garb.

Ad from the Yiddish newspaper Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1928 program at the government-run Municipal Educational Cinematograph in Łódź. The main feature advertised was Fritz Lang's newly-completed masterpiece Metropolis. An expressionist dystopia…

During World War I, Jews fought for the Poland's independence in the Polish Legions and later took part in the Polish-Soviet War. In the interwar period, Jews, like other Polish citizens, were drafted for military service. Jewish soldiers took part…

In the interwar years, those overseeing the welfare of children and youths made it a priority to provide them with recreational activities during the summer. Each year, a relatively small number of children—mainly those under special care of the…