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Pfeiffer’s photograph of the Municipal Educational Cinematograph, seen from Rokicińska Street. There are posters advertising film screenings in display cases and glued to windowpanes of the building. A boy is studying the information on one of the…

Pfeiffer’s photograph of the Municipal Educational Cinematograph building seen from the Wodny Market. The inscription above the entry to the cinema reads: “The Municipal Educational Cinematograph.” The trees behind the building belong to the…

Ad from Najer Folksblat publicizing a 1933 operetta-revue at the Momus theater in Bałuty. Momus was one of several modest venues that offered light entertainment to the residents of the Jewish quarter of Łódź.

The Łódź-Kaliska Train Station was built in the beginning of the 20th century, about 3 kilometers from the center of the city. The art nouveau building, designed by Czesław Domaniewski and Jan Heurich became one of the most beautiful emblems of…

This photograph features the main building of the Łódź-Fabryczna Train Station, one of the busiest public spaces in interwar Łódź.

The Łódka and Bałutka Rivers converge at this spot in the Łódź People's Park of Health and Recreation (Park Ludowy na Zdrowiu). Both rivers were regulated by concrete channels. Their grassy banks were the perfect place to take a stroll or simply kick…

In this photograph we see the Luna Park at the Dabrowski Plac: the roller coaster, carousel, etc. The area of the entertainment part is surrounded by a tall fence, and at the entrance, a couple of policemen maintain order. Those who cannot afford the…

In 1919 Łódź was the first city in Independent Poland to adopt a resolution promoting public education. This photograph pictures the first school constructed in interwar Łódź. The edifice was constructed in the Romantic National Style between 1920…

A quarter in the new Jewish cemetery in Doły (a district in northern Łódź). The symbols carved into these tombstones are characteristic of graves for men. The tombstones (Hebrew/Yiddish matzevahI) face East as religious ritual demands.

The women's quarter at the newly established Jewish cemetery in Doły. The graves are evenly distributed among the birch trees, and the tombstones (Hebrew/Yiddish matzeva) face East as religious ritual demands.