1942 color street map of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), Poland
Extent and Medium
overall: Height: 37.125 inches (94.298 cm) | Width: 27.000 inches (68.58 cm)
Archival History
The map of Litzmannstadt was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2006 by Gil Rosenberg.
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Gil Rosenberg
Scope and Content
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.
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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.
front, upper right border, pencil : 400.-
Subjects
- Poland--History--Occupation, 1939-1945.
- Łódź (Poland)--Maps.
- World War, 1939-1945--Poland--Łódź.
Genre
- Information Forms
- Object