The Jewish Ghetto in Lodz Poland (Łódź Ghetto)
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- Опубликовано: 18 дек 2022
- In this part of my travel series, I explore the past history of Lodz and find out the tragedies that happenned here. I couldn't even imagine what I was about to find out. I explore what is today the former Jewish ghetto or formally called the Lodz Ghetto and tell the story of what happenned here.
I visit the district were Jews and other ethnical groups were forced to live (under the Nazi regime), and the kind of fates that awaited them. I also visit the jewish cemetery (which is supposed to be the the biggest in the world).
The story is telling the history of what happenned during World War Two and what the aftermath looks like.
The video was filmed in October 2022. You will get an idea of what the ghetto looked like, and you will see Litzmannstadt Ghetto monument along with the cemetery. Litzmannstadt is also another name for the Lodz Ghetto.
The Nazis had many concentration camps built in parts of Europe and many of the victims shared the same fate in these ghettos and were ultimately sent to death camps. Many of the victims in Lodz were sent to Chelmno (Chełmno) and Auschwitz Birkenau with trains were mass murder took place. Chelmno is believed to be the first stationary death camp during world war 2 were gas was used to kill humans.
Sources say that around 145 000 humans from the Lodz Ghetto were murdered in the death camps. Many also died due to the conditions in the ghettos. Many died of starvation and abuse. Not many survived.
In the ghettos, the victims, were forced to make items like clothes and uniforms for the nazis. It was a working camp. And ultimately they were (most of them) sent to the death camps.
It is a dark and sad history. This is the story of the Lodz Ghetto. This is the story of the Holocaust.
For more sources on the events that took place and what data it is partially based on, I recommend the following web sites:
www.lodz-ghetto.com
www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/a...
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/conten...
Music in this video is from epidemicsound.com
On the site on where the Litzmannstadt ghetto monument is located you will learn more about the story of the victims, the holocaust and auschwitz birkenau along side other death camps.
#łódź #travel #history
Hi, I'm 21 and was born and live in Łódź. I just wanted to thank you for your interest and spreading awareness about this history. Wish you all the best.
Hi, Thanks for your message and encouragement for me to make more relevant content, it means a lot. Thx
Thank you for this movie. I live in Lodz. This city has been forgotten by the authorities for over 50 years, unrepaired, decaying, a typical communist factory city. Half of the city of Lodz should be renovated and the city authorities are doing it, but there is still no money for such a huge project. This place where the ghetto was located is the poorest district of this city. The people living there are very poor, there are huge problems with paying the rent... therefore, the owners of tenement houses or the city that owns them still have serious problems with renovating such places in this city.
My mother and grandmother (grandfather as a Polish army and police officer was killed by the Russians in 1940 - the Katyn massacre) lived in Lodz at that time, grandmother was a pediatrician and sent children to the other side (the easiest way for them to pass through holes in the ghetto fence) with food, with medicines. Grandma worked with ZEGOTA... and her whole family, despite their German roots, fought against the bloody rule of the Nazis. My grandmother's family came to Poland from Switzerland and lived here since the mid-nineteenth century, so they all felt Polish. An apparent paradox in those days. Terrible times, I showed these places to my sons... so they would never forget. Every year, on the Day of the Dead, we lay flowers at the Jewish cemetery. Thank you again for this important video. Kind Regards - Stan.
Hi, Thanks for reaching out and telling your story. Very moved by the words and what your family has gone through. Thanks again.
One remark. You wrote "city forgotten by authorities", which suggests the government, either central or local deliberately brought the city down.
In communist times, Łódź was a city with 1 million ppl, but in nineties the local cloth and fabrics industry was too obsolete to compete in globsl market. This caused that especially younger population started leaving the city, especially that Warsaw is not that far from Łódź.
But….. you have to admit that poles were not only in may cases indifferent to the tragedy of their own Jewish citizens, but ACTIVELY participated in the Holocaust, by killing their own neighbours ( Jedwadne, Kielce programs) but also as a Jew chasers. THAT IS A FACT
@@Pinash1970 What you are saying is more opinion than fact. Jedwabne is a bit dubious, because there was an SS unit stationed there, but the fact is that in the area, JEWS HAVE BEEN BLESSED FOR EARLIER COLLABORATION FOR THE SOVIET.
Kielce is a provocation of the communist authorities who wanted to blame the anti-communist resistance movement.
I agree that there were helpers, but what you wrote is distorting reality. There was not even such a possibility, because from the beginning Jews were concentrated in ghettos, i.e. under the control of the Germans, where Poles had very difficult access. On the other hand, the Jews worked hard for retaliation in the eastern territories with their collaboration. Collaborators are eliminated, not helped
After the war, it was the Jews who managed the Stalinist crimes, torturing and murdering Polish war heroes.
So making yourself a victim in the context of Poles is rude insolence
@@piotrbartnicki6590 I might have argued with you about the exact facts, but your last statement shows that you are a Polish antisemite. One can debate who exactly was responsible for the Kielce pogrom, but to blame it on the 'Jews who managed Stalinist crimes'? What Jews were running the communist enforcement in Poland? By that time, Stalin had already begun his purge of Jews from all government, medicine, and arts positions, and he certainly wasn't sending them to Poland! And murdering Polish war heroes? This is nothing more than sick internet Jew-hatred conspiracies!
I lived in one of those buildings when I was a child. My parents found Stars of David on the walls while renovating the flat.
Hi, Thanks for sharing your story. Very interesting to hear about your experience. Am also a bit keen to know how it was to grow up in this neighborhood. If you want you can share, I and many others would be interesting to know, but otherwise I understand also if one doesn't want to share that information. Hope you have a great day, and thanks again
Budynki które tak przeraziły tego pana są normalnie zamieszkałe przez Łodzian. Tam żyją ludzie. Pan z filmiku jest przerażony tymi budynkami jak by zobaczył ducha.
Biedniejsi przenieśli się tam po wojnie i w czasach komunizmu. Obecnie wiele z nich jest odrestaurowywanych, ale to zajmuje czasu i pochłania pieniądze. Potrzeba więcej inwestycji, aby miasto wróciło do dawnej świetności.
You had to take a break from filming because of the affect the suffering that occurred there on you. Much respect to you for your kind and sensitive heart.
Just another day in Łódź
@@supertajnykana8146 Do you live there?
Thanks for your kind words. It means a lot. Thx
@@antonioacevedo5200 yes
Hi! Thank you for showing my neighbourhood, you even show my home 😁 I'm Jewish and I need to admit that you really feel what happened here in the former getto, but Jews are here and we're not going anywhere, Poland, Łódź is my home and it wont change. Thanks bro ❤
Super chwała Bogu Jahwe i Synowi Zbawicielowi Jezusowi Amen
Hi, Thanks for your message. Your positive message warms my heart, appreciate it. Hope you have a great day :)
Do you see any resemblance of what’s happening in Palestine or are you too self-centered? Do you care to visit “home” again? No, bummer how sad. Lucky for me I can visit my country freely in the Middle East.
I'm 40 and I'm from Łódź but my grandmother was telling me about those times. She lived near the camp for children. She used to say: never again!
Thanks for your message. I have been thinking about how it must have been to grown up here or have some more experience of the city. There is so much history here, that it is a bit hard to grasp everything that has gone on, and especially the ugly side of history. Am back here in Lodz now again, and I keep finding out more and more things about the city and its story. The camp for children is something that is pretty new to me and something I need to research more about, there is a video in the comments by the way that someone posted that might be helpful to watch if one wants to find out more. Important that we remember the history. I recently saw a movie about another kind of history that was played out here in Lodz back in the days, about the textile industry, that also shows the severity that humans can do, to gain power and status. It is called, The Promised Land (Polish: Ziemia obiecana) made by the famous polish director, Andrzej Wajda. The story shows how uncivilized and horror like capitalism can be, when its dark side of humans are let to rum amok. It is hard to tell how much is true from what you see in the polish movie, but I am not surprised if that what is shown in the movie happened in one shape or another (and maybe their identities are changed in the movie), but it is right now hard for me to say what is what. With the the small set of information I gathered when I was researching the former textile owners and the history (I went to their museums months ago) and there were a lot of scary things going on, and while the owners lived a luxurious life with palaces and more money they could ever spend in normal circumstances, and at the same time they paid the workers very very little. I guess some could have had a hard time surviving and living a decent life on the pay they got, and they forced the workers to work extremely long hours and in very dangerous and poor working conditions (I guess most workers didn't have much of an option, because else they would have no income and jobs could have been hard to find). I also heard stories some violence were taken against the workers if complaints were filed because of the working conditions (and they could easily lose their jobs just because of raising such matters to the surface). This is what I remember from visiting some of these places and doing some readings earlier. Although I can not say with 100 % certainty how it actually was back in the days, and not all owners probably behaved in the same way, but the power in the textile industry was concentrated on a few families who had a lot of power and it was a giant of an industry here in Poland, and globally too. Some families were said to be a bit more human than others (in terms of some paying a little better to the workers than other owners did for example, and in other ways how they showed humanity and respect). So I definitely recommend to see the movie and to visit the museums and palaces that tells the story of the textile owners and the history here in Lodz. Like the Herbst palace museum and Palace of Izrael Poznański (next to manufaktura) for example.
POLISH CHILDRENS💔
Litzmannstadt was the new name for the city of Łódź given by the Nazis, not for the ghetto itself. So just a little correction here. And something I wish most of the viewers would be aware of is that basically any bigger polish city had a part of it made into a ghetto during the WWII, the buildings where there long before the war even started, so it's not like it was made solely for keeping the minorities there. I think that explains why most of the cities don't really do anything about the state of the buildings, and why are they still here. Something to keep in mind is the fact that basically all of these belonged to Jews in the first place.
Exactly. In the case of Litzmannstadt Ghetto, a large part of it was destroyed by the Germans and then some part, mainly ruins after the destruction, by the local government after the war. There is a big park there now called Park Staromiejski and there is a great documental about it on YT called The Lost Quarter.
I was in Lodz last year and walked through different parts of the ghetto. I also visited the Jewish cemetery. It was a truly eerie yet moving experience. I plan to return to Lodz this summer to help with cleaning the Jewish cemetery. Thank you for making this video.
Thanks for sharing your experience and I am glad for the positive feedback, I appreciate it. Hope you have a great day
You are a brave soul!
@@carlosacta8726thx for your message, I don't feel very brave, I just feel it is really inportant to document about these things
Please let me know if you decide to do this. I would love to come help. My grandmother was born in Lodz, right before the Holocaust.
Thanks for powerful video, history must always be kept alive
Thanks for the uplifting words. Hope I can tell more stories that needs to be told in the future
Good footage and understandably overwhelming. Would be good to match with historical photos and notes of what people went through.
Hi, thanks for your message and your feedback, appreciate it a lot. Yes that is a very good idea, maybe something for the future. I will think about it and see what I can do. Thanks again, and hope you have a great day
Thank you kindly for making an empathetic video to show us around this area. Many of my family members met their terrible end here and we are doing our best to uncover their stories from a large distance away from these locations. Much appreciated.
If we don’t remember the Past, we are condemned to repeat it. Thank you
We can see and read about history past like Auschwich!
But if we don't do anything to prevent it again from happening, it means nothing!
Like our government allowing free entry ti illegal immigrants. People need to obey the rules and regulalations
of this country.
They totally ignore it and the internal enemiescwithin our country allow it and encourage it.
WHAT IS GOING ON?
WHERE ARE OUR PATRIOTS?
HOW LONG IS THIS GOING TO CONTINUE?
Thanks for your feedback. I hope I can bring more important stories to the surface
Well, if we allow 15 min cities, digital money.... not far we are from it.
It is not about ecology. It is about oppression in current times
We seem condemmed to repeat it whether we remember it or not.
@@judithwerner5301 If we remember it and do nothing, I agree. If remembering prompts righteous action, then the likelihood of repeating is reduced.
Consider visit at Radogoszcz prison and visit the broken heart monument, which commemorate German death camp made for children, also in Lodz
W tym obozie były więzione dzieci polskiej narodowości w wieku od 3 lat umierały z głodu, bicia i wycięczenia. Dlatego pomnik Pęknięte serce.
@@barbarabryndziak2300 o polskich dzieciach to nikt nie będzie odcinków kręcił . Niestety .🤷
@@tomekrdg7261 Ale prawdę trzeba mówić, że Niemcy podczas II W Ś na polskiej ziemi tworzyli obozy zagłady dla dzieci narodowości polskiej.
Thanks for sharing this sad story.. Btw background musics are very good..
My home city of Łódź, I don't currently live there but once I go there I must visit all the war museums, the getto monument etc.
Całe prawactwo już na szczęście z Polski wyjechało na pomidory do Holandii🤣🤣 nie wracaj prawaczku z myjaka bo przeżyjesz szok cywilizacyjny
@@jannowak1986 kiedyś jeszcze wrócę
@@_Michal_Michal_ na myjaku siedzi dzięki UE z przekreśloną flagą UE🤣 najważniejsza rzecz za którą powinniśmy podziękować EU to to, że przyjęli tych naszych chłopo-robotniczych prawaków na swoje zmywaki - dzięki temu w kraju mniejsze branie ma postpańszczyźniany popkonserwatyzm dla niedorajdów. Ten kraj już wam odjechał mentalnie i wygląda zupełnie inaczej niż twoja emigrancka bańka
@@jannowak1986 powiem krótko, Anglia teraz to zadupie
My grandparents met in Łódź in 1929. My grandfather had joined his father on one of his business trips to Łódź from Zydlowiec to sell his leather goods. 12 years later, after Krystal Nacht, they were sent, with my father, to their first labour camp. By the end of the war, my grandfather had died on the march between Auschwitz and Dachau and my grandmother and father survived Auschwitz and Dachau with several stops along the way. The leather tannery was stolen and the rest of the family were either murdered in Treblinka or in the cemetery in Zidlowiec. My grandmother told me thousands of stories about Poland before the war. Łódź was always a magical place in my mind.
Hi, Thanks for sharing your story. Good that u Remember the victims by sharing. It was horrible Times.
This video is so haunting and sad. We must never forget the beautiful people lost and give their lives acknowledgement that they lived and most died horrific deaths by torture and murder. God forbid this ever happens to another group of people! Thankyou for documenting!
Please tell me where this monument is with the lists and who keeps this monument up? Thankyou for keeping the history. The music fits as well.
Thanks, hope this video can make a difference in some small way
@@talkingsociety5560 You are doing your part and heaven sees!!
@@sherigraham3873 Hi, Thanks for the feedback, yeah I just hoped I could Give it as good of a representation as I could. The monument should be here, found the adress, should be this, what I found on Google aleja Pamięci Ofiar Litzmannstadt Getto 12, 91-859 Łódź, Polen
Litzmannstadt monument Lodz Poland. It is a bit outside the city. I think it is the city that maintains it, and it is free entrance also, so If u are in the neighboordhood or planning to go to Lodz it is a good idea to visit it, and the old ghetto in centrum and the jewish cemetary. The jewish cemetary is not so far from the monument btw. Hope this helps
And God is pleased! The Jews are His chosen people and they have suffered more than any others. It was prophesied that that would happen, but those who perpetrate on God's chosen people better beware!! They will pay dearly!!
Nazis didn't get proper punishment after the war,why Nuremberg trial treated them humanly when they tortured Jewish community savagely, respect to the souls of the ghetto from India
Because unfortunately bad guys get light punishment in most cases like child rapists and murderers Jeffrey dahmer ect we always way more humane than the monsters r
I plan on going to Poland to meet family soon. We are predominantly Lithuanian, and my great-grandparents were killed in the Kaunas/Kovno Ghetto. All because my youngest great-uncle married a Jewish girl. I do have surviving relatives in London, except my great-aunt was killed in the Blitz.
Hi, Am so sorry for what has happenned. I have no words. If I can say something am thankful you share your familys story. I think it will be good to go to Poland and to see some of these sights, if you feel for it. I hope all is good with u and that u have a great time in Poland. Thanks again for sharing. Wish u all the best
@@talkingsociety5560 Thank you for your kind words. My grandmother’s family - her uncles and aunts and grandparents were either executed by the Bolsheviks for supporting the White Army (the men) or sent to a gulag in Siberia (most of the women). My great-grandmother escaped Lithuania on a turnip cart.
@@ElleCee62978Thx for your message.Am so sorry, I feel with you. I haven't heard a story with so much grief before that what happened to them. So much in one family. Best we can do I think is to honor their memory and to work towards a better, safer world. And to take care of ourselves and to try to be a good human being. Thanks again for sharing this with me/us.
May I ask what your name is, and what country you are from? I was deeply moved by the tremendous emotion and horror you expressed so clearly in this video. I am a 55-yr-old Orthodox Jew and in a very recent weeklong visit to Poland and its Holocaust-related sites, I twice broke down and started weeping uncontrollably - once when standing in front of the huge collection of cremated human remains removed from the crematoria in Majdanek after the Russian liberation, and once when standing inside the remaining gas chamber in Birkenau. But in my case, I was not only crying for my people, but more specifically, for much of my family, as both my father and mother had almost their entire families murdered in Birkenau. But to see a gentile visitor so overcome by what he saw and learned in these places, simply because his heart remains as pure as it was when he received it from God at birth, was deeply touching. It was also somewhat encouraging, as it shows that even in the young generation, surrounded by a world of selfishness and overwhelming indifference to cruelty, there still can exist someone with such a warm and kind nature. May God bless you for producing these videos and setting such a beautiful example for others to learn from.
Hi, Am very sorry to hear about the fate that happened to your family and the wounds it has created for you and your loved one's. I feel the suffering that has lashed down upon this earth. I can not express my feelings in words to give them an honest representation. I just hope by showing what man and women have been capable of under certain circumstances that hopefully we will learn in the future so we once and for all could live in peace. Love is the way. Am very thankful for your warm message and sharing your story.
My name is Christian Hammarberg and I come from Finland. If you wonder about the nature/language of my name it is Swedish. We Finnswedes (who speak Swedish as their first language in Finland) are a minority here in this country far up in the north, Finland. I am thankful that you reached out and honestly told your story, it will be like a weight lifted off from your shoulders, am sure of it. We will always remember. God bless you
@@talkingsociety5560 Thanks for your response, Christian. Best of luck in all that you do, and always work to preserve your kind and warm heart, because without constant awareness and effort, one's heart can very easily start to become dulled by all the evil and indifference in the world, and we need more people like you to keep the light of decency and kindness shining in the world. According to the great Jewish ethical teachings, there is no greater achievement in this world than to maintain one's kindness despite being surrounded by evil and indifference.
@@lsmart Thanks. Btw wanted to share that I got a new video out now, on covering similar horrors, it is called the Killing Fields. Cambodian Massacre. I guess our conversation gave me more motivation to bring light on these subjects that we are studying. You find the video on the Talking Society Channel. Just search for Killing Fields. I had to go to Cambodia to really find out what happened there in 1975-1979 when a dictator started to kill off a huge portion of the people in the country. It is estimated over 2 million Cambodians were murdered during this time period.
It was very emotional being there on site in Siem Reap to investigate these matters. It was shocking.
A hardcover copy of the lodz ghetto book is treasured posession of mine.
These people wished to not be forgotten.
I will never forget
Poles, both Christian and Jewish, went through a tremendous amount of suffering and brutality at the hands of Germans and Russians during WWII. I can see how filming this clip would be very difficult.
This world needs more love. I hope we will get there soon.
@@talkingsociety5560 Thank you for this movie. I live in Lodz. This city has been forgotten by the authorities for over 50 years, unrepaired, decaying, a typical communist factory city. Half of the city of Lodz should be renovated and the city authorities are doing it, but there is still no money for such a huge project. This place where the ghetto was located is the poorest district of this city. The people living there are very poor, there are huge problems with paying the rent... therefore, the owners of tenement houses or the city that owns them still have serious problems with renovating such places in this city. My mother and grandmother (grandfather as a Polish army and police officer was killed by the Russians in 1940 - the Katyn massacre) lived in Lodz at that time, grandmother was a pediatrician and sent children to the other side (the easiest way for them to pass through holes in the ghetto fence) with food, with medicines. Grandma worked with ZEGOTA... and her whole family, despite their German roots, fought against the bloody rule of the Nazis. An apparent paradox in those days. Terrible times, I showed these places to my sons... so they would never forget. Every year, on the Day of the Dead, we lay flowers at the Jewish cemetery. Thank you again for this important video. Kind Regards - Stan.
@@ColonelStanley Hi, Thanks for sharing your story. There was a lot of bravery in your family to go through that what they did and to try to help the victims. It's hard to imagine how it was back then with the emotions and everything going on. Glad u could share this with us. Thanks for that. Glad If I did a good representation of the history to help to tell the story
@@talkingsociety5560 Yes, it was a very hard and confusing story. Lodz was a city of four nations - Poles, Jews, Germans and Russians. My grandmother's family came to Poland from Switzerland and lived here since the mid-nineteenth century, so they all felt Polish. That's why she and her whole family opposed the nazis. They had serious problems because they had a german-sounding surname and the Germans demanded that they sign The Deustsche Volksliste... but they started to change their names to false ones and my grandmother and my mother hid in Warsaw for some time. Strange coincidences. Remembering my grandfather, I started to serve in the army and spent over 25 years there. During this time, on various missions, I met many great people from the United States, Canada, Australia and Great Britain ... we had similar tasks, our units had practically the same destiny. Great people, some of them were my teachers at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries. We trained in Scotland (Highlands) and in several bases, in the USA... Fort Bragg, and in a few others whose names unfortunately I can't give... Now I'm retired, but I use my skills as an instructor... near the ukrainian border. There is also a war there, we try to help every day. Poland is a very complicated place... to live here, a very complicated history and the fate of millions of people. Best regards - Stan
I'm still surprised many did just say they were another faith and make up a new last name ...
Thank you Republic of Poland keeping the memory of those Jewish women and men that were murdered in the Holocaust together with their children alive. Have a great day and Am Israel Chai 🇵🇱🇮🇱
Thanks for your reply. I agree with you, it is good to keep the memory alive, it is important. Have a great day
@@talkingsociety5560 It is also the fundamental tenet of my Jewish religion and identity. Thank you very much and good night 🤗🤗
@@fredsimchawang6327 Thank you and good night :)
Forgot to mention I made a song as a tribute to all the victims right after I filmed this documentary (see below):
ruclips.net/video/kNUjnOmklJs/видео.html
The song was made really fast and spontaneous, recording it on my phone, and vocals and such could have been better, but anyways here it is.
The song is called What are we made of.
Heartbreaking absolutely.
It is indeed
No pewnie, 30% Żydów, 20% Niemców, 15% Rosjan i dla Polaków prawie miejsca nie ma.
😪may god bless all these poor souls,who died at the hands of these evil people
How about those who managed to survive?
They still are around.
Having the thoughts if the inhumane cruelty they suffered duing their infamous captivity of death! These were young children, young teenagers.
You are not told the half of it. And today in our own good America, aborting babies in the womb, stealing little children for terrible sex cruelties and death in the end! Barbarous drug addictions! Causing people to lose their minds and abilities. Forcing them to live on the streets!
God have mercy on us and the world.
Ale paskudna ta moja Łódź zwłaszcza stare Bałuty. Jak nie stare zrujnowane ulice, to jeden wielki rozkop. Naprawdę polskie Detroit.
Hi, Thanks for reaching out. Yes it was really an experience being there in this part of Lodz. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it. I hope I can visit Lodz again some day soon and see more parts of the city that I haven't seen and explore more of the history
Za coś takiego odpowiada prezydent Łodzi.
One can easily be overwhelmed by a tidal wave of sadness when confronting what occurred here. I will never visit. May God preserve the souls of those people!
Terribly sad those poor innocent men women and children murderd my heart is very heavy after watching this video. We must never forget. Thank you for sharing with us this video 🙏🕯🙏
Hi, Thanks for sharing. It is very tragic indeed. There are so many stories that are still untold and I hope just by creating a little bit of awareness of this, maybe the world can remain a bit safer and learn from the past. Even though it sometimes doesn't look like it, I think we will get there in the end and will have lasting peace in the world
At least the cemetery was beautiful.
Yes the cemetery is very peaceful and of course a very emotional place too. I recommend visiting it. Hope you have a good day
@@talkingsociety5560 no thank you......not ready for that yet
Nice video want to visit and see
Hi, definitely recommend you to visit the old jewish ghetto, radegast, and the jewish cemetery. There is also other history worth visiting, like the posnaski palace, herbst palace museim and to learn about the old textile industry. The Film museum is also pretty special If u are in town, Lodz used to be like the Hollywood of Poland
Some use the name Lodz Ghetto to locate the place easier, but the title should really be Litmannstadt Ghetto, as this was the name of our city under German occupation and that is when the ghetto existed.
Hi, thanks for your message. Yes you are right the official name is litzmannstadt ghetto or the Lodz Ghetto. I guess it goes under many names. Thanks again for taking the time to watch the video and reaching out. Hope you have a good day
@@talkingsociety5560 Well... I certainly wouldn't say 'under many names'. There is pretty much one name to it, Litzmannstadt Ghetto, or, if you speak to someone who has no clue what Litzmannstadt was, you can use Lodz Ghetto to locate the place, but to be precise, Lodz never had a ghetto, as the city wasn't called like that at the times of the German occupation. :-)
@@Andek74 Thx for your honest feedback. I hear you
@@Andek74Dokładnie, Polacy nie zakładali gett dla Żydów robili to Niemcy. Mówiąc Łódzkie Getto można mieć wrażenie że to polskie Getto, czyli Polacy dokonali tam zbrodni na Żydach. Polski w czasie okupacji nie było, było tzw. Generalne Gubernatorstwo. Niestety byliśmy pod butem niemieckim i rosyjskim. Ważne jest używać właściwego nazwenictwa żeby nie dochodziło do przekłamywania historii, bo jeszcze chwila a będziemy się uczyć o holocauście spowodowanym przez Polaków a nie przez Niemców, a to już kolejny cios dla naszego Państwa. Pozdrawiam.
Thank you very much for this touching movie. I will soon visit Lodz for the first time and would like to visit this part of Lodz. Where can I find this area of Lodz? Thank you in advance!
Thank you for your very kind reply. Yes I understand, you can find the old district, the jewish ghetto here for example: www.lodz-ghetto.com
It is close to the manufaktura shopping centre, really in downtown or close to downtown depending on how you see it in Lodz. The park nearby is also pretty interesting were they divided the ghetto and so called none ghetto
Thanks again hope you have a great trip
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Actually I should put together some video footage I have of that park as I am trying to find the former ghetto myself. It is pretty special videos
@@talkingsociety5560 Thank you very much! I appreciate your help!
After our conversation I put together this video, this should help you to find the Jewish Ghetto, see my latest video: ruclips.net/video/PU9ykYtUUyY/видео.htmlsi=D5RVE6UTVzPxAJn7
Thank you. Will there ever be a place on earth where as much good will be done as the evil that was done there …
My husband’s paternal grandfather and an aunt died in this Guetto and his paternal grandmother and another aunt were deported, possibly to Chelmno…Other family members also perished…🌹🕯
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Thanks for telling your story
Wasn't this Litzmannstadt?
Hi, yes u are very right about that. The ghetto goes under many different names and that one is assumed to be the formal name. Thanks again
I made a follow up of this video, which is all the video footage I didn't release first as I was searching for the Jewish Ghetto. Here is the video of a longer version of the Jewish Ghetto: ruclips.net/video/PU9ykYtUUyY/видео.htmlsi=U0dr-yr0Zsy_Tos1
Thank you for allowing me to see my deceased Holocaust survivor Father’s home.
His Dad or my Grandfather was shot in front of him in 1939, inside the Łódź Ghetto.
The Soviet Union didn’t tear the buildings down?
Thank you. Am so sorry to hear about that. What I undestand many of the buildings are still standing from the war, at least that is what sources say but there might be room for errors.
Hope u have a great day
TO GETO TULKO POLSKIE TRWA DO DZISIAJ . ZADNYCH REAKCJI WLADZ LODZI LUDZIE TAK TU ZYJA !!!
Talking Society Thanks for reply.
Who plays the audio in this video?
Hi, It's music from epidemicsounds, is there a particular song in the video I can try to look it up, just tell me from which minute it is played
Here's a link to another video from Lodz:
ruclips.net/video/KCHc2Z833EI/видео.html
In our channel we ask about local's point of view. 🙃
I see a lot of familiar places in the video ;) even though I just watched half a minute or so. cool
I'd like to know about a German SS officer named Wilhem Albert who used to be the chief of the Security Police of the Lodz ghetto do you know what became of him ? I know he was sent there by Heydrich s order as a kind of punishment for messing up with his trollop wife Lina .
Hi, thanks for reaching out. No I don't know, I need to research about it, thanks for the input though. I need to admit I have to realize that I or we as people usually know very little about what has happened, or in certain situations. There is so many things that will be forever lost too. Let's see, I will probably do a similar video reportage/documentary of what happened in lodz Poland, but this time, in Cambodia, and the violent acts that had been committed in history. I will also try to go to Vietnam, try to explore what the imprints of war has had on the society, if the plan works as it should that is. So stay tuned, I will try to get more new videos, that I hope can have some difference in this world.
@@talkingsociety5560 Oh that would be good if you made it to the killing fields. I and my husband helped many Cambodian refugees who were flown to Seattle USA back in 1982-1986. Those people suffered tremendously and went through so much trying to survive. I am sure Vietnam and Cambodia still have people with many scars from the communists and Khmer Rouge. Your spotlights are important to educate the younger generations. Thankyou ⭐
Widać po napisach na murach że to tereny Widzewa
Thanks for your message, no this area is in the former Lodz Ghetto, closer to the manufaktura area, on the opposite of the road where manufaktura is. Hope you have a great day
I live in this city and wow I never took a moment to think about these regions of my city. I always just saw them as a sh*thole and generally avoided going there (there's not much there anyway). The weird thing is not many even acknowledge that it used to be a ghetto (at least from a group of people that I know)
Why did you blur names in photos of the cemetery?
Thanks for your reply. Good question, don't remember, but probably thought that was best
Most probably I thought it was best to have distance to that personal side, why I probably blurred, that is how think
History must be told, and told with all its brutality, because if you don’t teach it, it will be repeated
I see alot of work being done in the ghetto area. Are they moving carefully with regards to the history, or are they building as they see fit?
These buildings where there long before the war even started, they weren't build as any kind of "prison", but belonged mostly to the Jews before the war. So Łódź is working on making them look as nice as possible, remembering their real purpose in the first place - as a home.
@@patrycjaradomska8232 Obviously I know the history. Ghettos were not prisons, but areas of residential that were cut off from society. My question was in regards to whether the community is rebuilding from a historical perspective...
I guess you've answered my question; caring more about modern 'homes"... that's a shame.
@@Iceman8723 what would you like to see them turned into instead then? Łódź is full of memorial places already, especially Station Radegast (shown in the video) along with a full list of the victims and a huge replica of the ghetto itself.
@@patrycjaradomska8232 I sense aggression in your post. I have not been there. I'm commenting on what I've seen in the video. If you have angst against memorialization... which you clearly do... You can troll another comment.
@@patrycjaradomska8232 Further Patrycja, if you have issues with my comment, you're welcome to produce a similar video communicating your extensive knowledge. Please make a video telling the world about your feelings that holocaust is "far too remembered". Clown.
What is your problem with all the Names written in Hebrew letters on the graves in the Jewish cemetery that you had to blur out ???
Hi there, I wasn't sure if it was a good idea or not to include the names in the video so for safety's sake I just excluded it. I know there was a bit of job behind it
Why are these beautiful, historical buildings just left to decay? Could they not be salvaged and restored and become housing for people?? I think having families live there would be a great way to honor the families who couldn’t live at all. God bless all of them.
Hi, it is a really good question. I think families are living in these buildings, at least in some. I know at first impression some look like they are almost abandonded, because they look run down, but I think people live in them. I agree with u, it's a great way to honor the families. Great idea
I was in Lodz with my boss for business. One day he asked a taxi driver to show sights. He took us to Lodz ghetto. Boss said what's this? Said think its Con Camp. He asked why? Said look at barbed wire it's black. Barbed wire shiny new or rusty. Black = memorial (painted). Can't remember much but inside building was a brick structure as big as 2 toilets - labelled gas chamber. Rubbish!
Hi, Thanks for your message. I don't know exactly where you were in the Ghetto but the history of this place is brutal and I don't know what more to say. There is so many similar cases around the globe where people under certain circumstances start to behave in a cruel and evil manner due to ignorance, hate and jealousy, and the story of what happened here in the Lodz Ghetto is just one of those examples. Was traveling in Cambodia a couple of months back and a similar story had happened there decades ago, actually not so long time ago. Horrifying.
Nie mylcie , proszę trzech miejsc w Łodzi : getto i stacja Radegast - miejsca zagłady Żydów, oraz Radogoszcz - niemieckie więzienie i miejsce zagłady Polaków
The graffiti is awful! Why people spray and paint tat on historic sites is unacceptable! But thanks for the video. It was very sad but educational.
Thanks for your message. I guess it tells a story the graffiti, although I don't encourage someone to do that, unless it is legally made or organized with consent of course by the owners and the authorities. And as you said, it is said, and I think it is all kind of a mirror, like the graffiti for example. And with everything that happened, all the chaos that brought about the war and all the suffering that happened during it and in the aftermath, it all seems like a snowball effect. Something offset one thing and more and more things happen. Nothing justifies and nothing makes it okay to do that what happened, but it shows that hate and fear creates more of the same kind. Someone said once, "it is like it is the seven deadly sins that run the world: greed, pride, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony and sloth". Our world needs more love and empathy that is for sure.
Thanks again for taking the time to reach out. Hope you have a great day
I hate seeing all that graffiti on the buildings. It seems so disrespectful. Maybe some murals of life in the Ghetto or murals marking the progression of pre-, during, at the camps and post- war life/death of the prior residents. Something, anything but the graffiti. Wonder why the Ghetto hasn't been turned into a tourist area. It would be great as a museum maybe even a living museum.
Hi, I hear you with all the graffiti, there is a lot of that in Lodz. I think it should be organized by the state and those who own the buildings, so it becomes a beautiful carried out artistic expression that they want to see. If it was my building I wouldn't like that someone just put graffiti there, so I understand what you mean. Good question with the tourist area, that is really a great idea. Maybe we should contact the authorities and see if that is something they could arrange. Very good idea indeed. As you said a living museum with information boards (and maps) where you have info about what happened here in this area and so forth (different stories that keep the history alive). Thanks again for sharing. Hope you have a great day
Regarding graffiti, I have a new episode on Talking Society about street art where you can see a lot of the artworks in the city, also graffiti is shown, so if you love art and symbolism and to know more about what is happening in Poland and Lodz, that could be a great show for you to watch.
Have a good day
@@talkingsociety5560 thanks I will and I love graffiti as art but the graffiti from the ghetto you showed looked like tagging and not art.
@@talkingsociety5560 thanks and I really enjoyed the video and the reverence you showed for the suffering of the past victims.
@@annehersey9895 I know what you mean, I don't think it is so pretty either when there is clutter everywhere. It is really a lot of those things here in Lodz. Honestly I have never seen so much graffiti or this kind of yeah how to put it, clutter, that I don't perceive to be so beautiful (but maybe someone else does). Sometimes really, beautiful art (how I perceive it, that seem to be organized somehow) has been totally destroyed, and not to mention the buildings.. I guess it tells something about society
The sad part is that there are still people living there.
Hi, Yes it seems pretty strange when being there trying to grasp what had happened in the history. Thx for your message btw
@@talkingsociety5560 There is absolutely nothing strange about people living there now. You showed some of the most derelict places, but the ghetto occupied a large area of Baluty district, very close to the center of Lodz/Litzmannstadt. This had been a normal part of town befgore the war, inhabited by Jews and Poles and life got back in it after the liquidation of the ghetto, mainly after the war. Jews were not murdered there, Germans relocated them to death camps when liquidating the ghetto. So Baluty is not a massive graveyard or anything, why should people move out from there? Many of them lived there since 1945. Part of the ghetto destroyed by the Germans after the liquidation is a large park called Staromiejski, just next to Manufaktura (a massive shopping and entertainment center in an old factory) and a few steps from the Liberty Square and Piotrkowska, the very center of Lodz.
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It's hard to witness systematic hatred with your own eyes.
Thanks for your comment. Yes it is very hard
This was the jewish ghetto Litzmannstadt.
Hi, thanks for your message. Yes you are right this was the litzmannstadt ghetto or the Lodz Ghetto. It had many names. Thanks again for seeing the episode and reaching out. Hope you have a good day
Yes, why is there no changes for the better?
This city has been forgotten by the authorities for over 50 years, unrepaired, decaying, a typical communist factory city. Half of the city of Lodz should be renovated and the city authorities are doing it, but there is still no money for such a huge project. This place where the ghetto was located is the poorest district of this city. The people living there are very poor, there are huge problems with paying the rent... therefore, the owners of tenement houses or the city that owns them still have serious problems with renovating such places in districts like this one. Kind regards - Stan
May God always be with the Jewish people.
Christians! Please remember that Jesus was a practicing Jew.
Even during commiting massacres of palestinian children, or taking over tenements?
@Axl Knight who says NI What an inappropriate response from you. What a totally insensitive, irrelevant, nasty little comment.
@@peterosbourne3571 Say that to murdered civilians. I am astonished how Jews - nation that went throuh holosaust - has recreated the third reich race politics hidig beind "opressed" free from jail card. Inapropriate and insensitive is to praise and bless those Israeli child murderers and facists.
@@axlknightwhosaysni5336 go and read some good books. Get educated.
Is ok, but would like to see what scene the host is looking at rather than watching him look at it.
Hi, yes I would want to say I agree with you. Will try different approaches in the future to tell a story without me being visible. Thx again for the feedback all information is valuable as am learning
Forced myself to watch. The horror in such a story needs to be witnessed. Never again!!!
Hi, Thanks for reaching out. It is emotional and sad indeed. It was important for me to do this, and I think I got to process a lot of things at the same time. It was hard. Thanks for taking the time to watch it.
This world is horrible place without God. Fear of the Lord is beginning of wisdom. ❤️🙏🏻
IT is not jeqish ghetto anymore, IT is Łódź. But not renovated.
Do obozów Niemcy wywozili nie tylko Żydów a także Polaków . Ps. naziści to w jakim języku mówili ?
Those Jews were Poles you anti-semite.
Imagine how cruel human beings can become!
What inhumanity!
And today the falling away from God is bringing people to this terrible hatred and inhumanity again! Why?
Why the hatred?
God says love one another as i have loved you.
Look at our poor homeless. Sleeping on the streets.
It should not be.
Stop giving money to our enemies! Rebuild America.
Shame and dishonor is what we have now! Disgraceful.
How we have fallen.
Thanks for your message. Yes why not more love? I think we need to have a system that makes the inequality less or obsolete. No one should live without food, Water and decent housing and environment. I hope we can build a better future where people feel happier, more secure and loved. I think it will happen, someday, somewhere
@@talkingsociety5560 thank you. I appreciate your answer.
Very Sad story,my heart bleeds for Jews and Roma people.😢
Me too.
Hope u have a great day, and thanks for tuning in
There used to be a vibrant jewish community .................
Hi, thanks for your comment. Yes it would have been interesting to go back in time before all that mess and tragedy happened (with ww2) to see how it was back here in Lodz. Still today when walking around here in the city, I keep thinking about how the community must have looked like, with its beautiful buildings still standing in the city centrum like on Piotrkowska
🔥 Ruzzia & CHINA have the same plans for UKRAINE! 🔥 We are now living with the most powerful reminder of WHY WE MUST REMEMBER HISTORY!
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jokes on you, people still live there, and why those buildings looks like it? most of them is private and owners don't care
Hi, I don't understand the joke but doesn't matter, I hear what you are saying about the buildings. As long as the buildings are not a safety hazard I think it is okay, so everybody is safe. Thanks again for reaching out. Have a good day
It looks sad.
Hi, thanks for your reply. Yes it is rather melancholic. But I hope the video was useful and educationa. Hope you have a great day
If you write in the header "Yevish ghetto in Lodz. Poland", be so good and write that it is german ghetto for Jews from the time World War II, otherwise, Amerikan press will again write about "Polish concentration camps".
Went to krakow last month form London and seen joewsih town there
Hi, thanks for your message, great you mention that, don't think I have been there and will definitely try to go there when I can. Was only briefly in Krakow, and unsure If I was in that area. Thx again,is there anything else in town u recommend am glad to hear about it so I can put it on my list 😀 hope u have a great day
Government should preserve such type of places
Thanks for your message. Yes, I think it is important that history and some landmarks are preserved in some way or fashion as a way not to forget what happened, and to prevent injustice/evil from happening again. Thanks again for tuning in. Hope you have a good day.
wonder why all these video are suddenly circulating about the crimes against humanity...
Well, I don't know if all the videos are about that topic, but I understand with all the sorrow going on and wars and conflicts in the world that this is something that needs to be talked about more. As a means for us to remember the past as a way to foresee and understand the future, and as a way to prevent evil from happening again. There is so much more that could be said and talked about in preventing horrible acts taking place in various forms. Another thing is the extreme inequality that can be witnessed in our world, with some people living on the street, not having food, clean water nor a roof over the head while others have so much surplus that it is almost unimaginable to understand the contrasts in our times.
Since I come from the Nordic I have been pretty sheltered from seeing homelessness because in my small hometown there is basically none of it, and we have a large safety net for those who are most vulnerable, like those who don't have a job, or are ill, and can't work. In those situations the state looks after them, giving them money to survive and an apartment to live and various services like guidance or health care (and of course this system is not perfect either, but I think it is a great way to go, to eliminate as much of human suffering as possible so no one is left behind in other words. Less suffering and more love, that is the message).
I think that is great, that everybody is taken care off and those in need get help in various forms, even though help might look differently, but I guess society is a work in progress in my home country too (which is Finland). But when I left recently on my solo trip in Asia, and before even in Europe, I saw something completely differently. In some places there is barely no help that is given, and for example in Bangkok I saw a lot of wealth being accumulated in the city and skyscrapers and billboards with advertising selling various things, and luxury hotels, and then when walking a couple of hundred meters I come to a slum were I saw people with barely no clothes at all, living in dirty unhygienic situations, with no money, next to the highway which is causing a lot of pollution, which probably many get diseases from and die and many in this area dies from many unnecessary things because it all could have been prevented if we only took care of them. Next to the slum I see the skyscrapers and luxurious sport cars rolling by. It is a surreal scene. It is extreme. People begging on the streets for money. Even women with infants trying to get some coins to buy water and bread. Even children and infants being left alone on the street. It is extreme. And yeah there is a lot of homelessness in Europe too and all kinds of problems. It almost seems endless, but there are explanations and solutions to all of this. And I really believe we can make this world into a better place. We can fix this together.
It is obvious the systems we have are not perfect, they seem to have plus and minuses, but I think we need to strive to make it better for as much people as possible, and although there is many cool things that has come from the innovativeness that entrepreneurs (capitalism) has brought about, there is also another darker side that needs to be adressed. And I guess everybody knows exactly what that is about. We need to remember the human side. We need to take care of each other and be respectful and act in a way to leave no one behind, that is my dream. And that would mean a world where no wars can happen
have been there but i didnt know it was jewish ghetto
Hi, yes I think it might be surprising for many. I think there is a lot of history around us that we are not so aware of, almost wherever we are perhaps
@@talkingsociety5560 but it haave noticed all the jewish style textile fabrics and other buildings and the jewish cementary in pabianice. thats spooky!
What is your nationality ? Why you do something like this ? Why you don’t says any one word about Polish and Slavic people which were mordered same way ? Why ???? Who was owners this death camps ?? I see only fake tears and fake feelings just for the movie.
Hi, I can see where you are going with this. Well, I tend not to think I have a nationality, I am a citizen of this earth. You see, I am not perfect, and I visited Lodz for a brief time period and made a short documentary. I know there were several victims that is why I mentioned other ethnical groups like the romani etc, and am sorry if I was not clear enough or if I excluded important information. Again, I had short time processing all the info and filming, and yes it was very emotional for me to go through all that what I witnessed and found out. You are of course entitled to feel and think what you want. I am simply a human being, with flaws and imperfections, and sometimes when dealing with our own feelings for example and limited time on our hand, maybe a project doesn't get as good or complete as we would want it to be. I am sure you understand.
And look like still Ghetto
It was former getto and still is ..The City does not have money
Hi, thanks for your reply, Yes I wonder were the money went. People still pay taxes but I guess it just shows that something ain't right
Can you just tell us about these double standards using when you talk about the Jewish, like just the Jewish community who suffered in this world history.
Hello, I am not really sure what you mean by the double standards, do you want to elaborate on it? I am going to research that what you wrote about the Ghetto in Gaza in Palestine. Oppression of any people, any ethnicity, race, sex, and violation of human rights is of course something that should be forbidden. We need to learn to treat each other with respect, love and understanding. I understand that the world looks at some places differently than that and am deeply sorry about that. I am thankful for your message. And want to know about what is going on in this world, so please feel free to share your story.
Tam same pejsyy z żydzewa mieszkają. Dlatego taki syf
What's up with the graffiti on such a historic site? Such disrespect for such an important sites Just saying, much prayers for all these people who have perished in the Ghettos, and elsewhere. ...😇😇😇😇😔😔😔😔🙏🙏🙏🙏✡️✡️✡️✡️🕎🕎🕎🕎
Smutne ta Historia ludnosci zydowskiej 😢
Hi, thanks for the input, yes it is very sad 😞
club of łódź is ŁKs :D
Brzydkie miasto koszmarnych wspomnień. Ktoś jeszcze żyje z Litzmannstadt?
What you Talking about, it's only Bałuty.Look at yours Rust Belt...
Pozdrawiam
It used to be the getto are durinig German occupatiom
Now it is the poorest and most neglected part of Łódź, Stare Baluty...they speak Polish and these are Poles.
The street with.the church is under rennovatipn now.. The businesses there are 80 years old. No money for renovation.
No repairs.
Very sad.
On utube watch Shoa Foundation , will open your eyes what happened in all these Countries , how the Jews were mistreated . It’s testimonials from the people that lived through it . Some testimonies will shake you to the core .
@@anaignatowicz2779 jak wybieracie tak macie.Macie za prezydenta oszustkę z wyrokiem sądowym ,która oprócz zadłużenia ŁODZI I ŁODZIAN na POtęgę od lat nic dla ŁODZIAN nie robi tylko pacykuje centrum CHYBA dla jakiś swoich bogatych i uprzywilejowanych kumpli i ....no właśnie dla kogo jeszcze(?) bo nie tworzac nowych miejsc pracy produkuje biedę co jest przyczyna wyludniania miasta bo mieszkańcy zwyczajnie wyjezdzaja za praca do innych miast.Jedyne spektakularne osiągnięcie waszej prezydent to spadek Łodzi z drugiego największego miasta w Polsce na miejsce czwarte (a moze juz na 5te ) czyli spadek PRESTIŻU Łodzi ,a więc atrakcyjności miasta dla ewentualnych inwestorów . JAK NAPISAŁAM: jak wybieracie tak macie .
@@bogumilak1391 ja nie wybieralamW Łodzi jestem tylko czasu do czasu i smutek mnie ogarnia.
Horror 🥹
Yes it was horrific to see the past 😥
2000 camps Germany and Poland,2000
Sad story what happened
And now they do the same to Pestinian...You all can see but you don't wanna to something about that..GODBLESS GERMANY
I hope the violence and brutalities will stop and they will find some lasting peace over there. I don't think anybody who acts from love wants to see anyone being hurt. It seems like there is a big mess worldwide, a big confusion. There is too much power grabbing a bit here and there, and as long as that continues it seems hard for the wheel of suffering to end.
People should be treated with respect. There is so much fear out there, and I guess the thinking of "this is mine, and I want more and more" seems like it never ends, because probably as the buddhists used to say, desire it the root of evil. And maybe we can not eliminate desire within us, I don't know. Or as Socrates and Nietzsche is supposed to have said or something along these lines, "that it is our unconscious acts that is the face of evil". I guess through investigative reasoning and questioning we can become a bit more aware, but then on the other hand, the average man and women on the street don't seem to have much power over the state affairs in a country, not even if it is in a democratic nation if you ask me. Maybe I should say it is limited. A dilemma.
Anyhow, the show seems to have gotten out of control a long time ago...
The question I guess is if the different parties involved on the world stage (whoever they are, am speaking in general terms) can look themselves in the mirror and shake hands and try to repair the damage done by forgiveness to live in peace and harmony, and admit to themselves we went too far this time. And I understand history can make it really complicated through various injustices taken place.It seems like the reasons never ends too. But somehow violence and oppression or whatever it is can not go on, because it will self destruct, at least that is what I believe.
It seems like it can be hard even to come to the table and negotiate peace, maybe that is nothing they want, I don't know. Am not necessarily talking about this conflict now but in general terms. Am thinking how it can look when one country is accusing the other country. I must say I know very little, if anything at all, about this conflict you are talking about, only what little I have seen in the news. And honestly I try to not read and follow the news because it is so depressing, it seems like it is the same story over and over again (I know this sounds paradoxically because I made a video about violence that has happened in the past). I can not help to think about the various conflicts that are going on now and that have been going on in human history worldwide. There seems to be some kind of ideological war or whatever you want to call it. I am rather speechless to be honest, I don't know what I can say, cuz my words don't seem to matter, but I say them anyhow.
Do black peoples understand the terrible tragedy that befell. the Jews of Europe during the period 1933 -45 when the Nazis ruled. .?…..they never stop reminding us of slavery. Which ended 250 years ago.
Interesting question u raise. I think there is probably many topics that are not being adressed to the so called collective consciousness. Just thinking about the history of the country where I was born, Finland, there is not really much talk about some of the painful events that happened in our history, like the civil war that happened around 100 years ago. Really crazy when u think about it, what they were doing to each other. It was during a time when Europe was a bit upside down, like it almost seems sometimes today still
wtf. such a strange question. Also segregation only ended in the 1960s. Read a history book. Black people also helped beat the Nazis in WW2. So ignorant.
You just saw poor part of poor city. There is nothing left from ghetto so dont be so dramatic ;D
Hi, thanks for your message. There is a lot present still from the ghetto, old buildings, and according to what I have researched too it confirms that. But I think I know what you mean. It was emotional to be there for me.. I will try to see some new other parts of Lodz now when am in town. Thx again. Hope you have a good day
w lodzi tylko lks
W Łodzi jest pięć klubów (znaczących) i wiele mniejszych, są to: Widzew, ŁKS, Budowlani, Orzeł i SMS. Kluby te reprezentują miasto w rozgrywkach wielu dyscyplin, często nie konkurują ze sobą, ponieważ nie każdy klub sportowy posiada sekcję w danym sporcie. Do najważniejszych sekcji należą: koszykówka (łks, widzew), siatkówka (budowlani, łks), piłka nożna męska (widzew, łks), żeńska (łks, sms), żużel (orzeł), rugby (budowlani).
Wśród tych klubów nie ma klubu o nazwie Iks, choć taka nazwa potencjalnie wyglądałaby dobrze np. w esporcie.
Please stop aiming the camera at youself especially at arms length.......this must be about THEM, not you. It makes you look like you are using this tragedy for you're own narcissist reasons.
That was very mean. He didn't have to spotlight this at all. Work on being nice 👍.
So can you instead visit the big Ghetto of Gaza in Palestine made by the same race of the Jewish people whom you're talking about
Hello, please see comment above. Is it this what you mean when you are referring double standards? If you can elaborate on it above I would be glad.
I try to focus on today,not the past.If we keep thinking of our past then we limit our future.I don't think about the Romans invading & killing my countrymen & women,I've moved on.I don't think about slavery I don't think about anything apart from today & tomorrow.
Hi, thanks for your message. I feel with you. It is a heartbreaking history all what they have been doing with the violence against other humans. Yes you very right, we should try to in the present moment but I think it is important to keep the memory alive though. And this was my way of processing sorrow and I felt it to be an important story to tell. Understand though it is good not to dwell too much on the past, or I guess it has its function (the dwelling on the past) so we can move on and learn to live happy in the present moment. Being here and now. Thanks again. Hope you have a great day
Big shit lodz Poland