Lodz

Poland

PERSONAGES WHAT TO EAT MUST-SEE PICTURES

PERSONAGES

Mary Berg

Mary Berg, a pseudonym for Miriam Wattenberg, was a Jewish girl Holocaust survivor who between October 10, 1939 and March 5, 1944 wrote a chronicle of her life in the Warsaw Ghetto under the German Governorate General before she was able to reach the United States for a prisoner exchange in March 1944. It is by far the first direct account of the Holocaust to be published, while the war was still going on, between 1944 and 1945.

Jan Kozielewski

Jan Kozielewski, known as Jan Karski, a Polish serviceman, was a member of the Armia Krajowa (National Army), Poland's main resistance group to Nazism, during World War II, charged with publicizing his country's situation abroad and especially the reality of the death camps. For his work he was awarded the title of Righteous Among the Nations. An award was named after his memory.

Cisza jak makiem zasiał

Literally means "silence as if it were a poppy," referring to the narcotic effect of the poppy seed; the equivalent in English would be "you could hear a pin drop".

WHAT TO EAT

Gołąbki

These are cabbage rolls stuffed with meat, a dish also known and popular in other parts of Poland. It is a recipe that has analogues in Asian and Middle Eastern cuisine with a filling of minced meat or vegetables and rice and/or boiled buckwheat, wrapped in cabbage leaves.

Gęsie pipki

It is a stew of goose stomachs seasoned with onion and garlic; It is served with challah and salad with grated turnips. If there are no goose stomachs, they can be replaced with turkey stomachs.

Piernik z marchwi

This gingerbread cookie is characterized by and differs from the classic version of this dessert, known throughout Poland, by the presence of carrots instead of honey.

MUST-SEE

Ulica Piotrkowska

The main street in downtown Łódź, which runs from north to south, is Piotrkowska. In addition to being the commercial and political center of the city it represents an interesting open-air gallery, with bronze sculptures depicting famous people born in Łódź, as well as the Hollywood-style walk (Aleja Gwiazd/Walk of Fame), "star-studded" and emblazoned with the famous Lodzians, and the special paved section of the street, named "Monument of 500 Lodzians to the City's 500th Anniversary," with the names of the citizens who contributed to its creation. This street represents the center of Łódź and due to its length (about 7 kilometers) it is one of the longest commercial streets in Europe.

Jewish Cemetery

In Łódź there is the largest Jewish cemetery in Poland, which occupies an area of about 40 hectares north of downtown. It was founded in 1892 with the entrance on Bracka Street and contains over 180,000 tombs, 65,000 tombstones and mausoleums. It is one of the last traces of the city's Jewish community.

Pasaż Róży

A few steps from Plac Wolności, at number 3, there is the wonderful Pasaż Róży. The story of this opera is a bit sad, but full of love. The building overlooking Piotrkowska was once a hotel, the owner had a daughter named Rosa suffering from a serious eye disease. The child was cured and almost lost her sight, but her eyes were irreparably damaged and allowed her to see the world as if it were a set of fragments of images. The mother, in memory of this misfortune, decided to have the street that crossed the hotel covered with many fragments of mirror, often arranged to form roses, as if crossing that portal one would enter a world seen with the eyes of little Rosa.