GETTO - PLAN VON LITZMANNSTADT 1941 / ORIGINAL / JUDAICA

Description

Plan Von Litzmannstadt Mit Strassenverzeichnis / Map of Litzmannstadt (Łódź) with street index
Edition 1941
Prepared By Erwin Thiem
scale 1 : 20 000
700 X 945 mm
ORIGINAL - VERY RARE!
ATTENTION. The plan has numerous tears on the folds. Please check the photos carefully.
At my neighboring auction there is another "Plan von Litzmannstadt" - the 1942 edition.
City plan of Łódź, Poland, then called by the Germans, Litzmannstadt, during World War II.
The map shows German occupied Łódź in 1941. The most notable features, as shown in part on the index on the verso, are 61 different streets identified by number and letter as "Strasse Getto Norden".
The area called "Nord" on the map roughly identifies the Jewish Getto.
The Łódź Getto (Litzmannstadt), was a World War II getto established for Polish Jews and Roma, following the 1939 invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest getto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto. Situated in the city of Łódź, and originally intended as a preliminary step upon a more extensive plan of creating the Judenfrei (Jewish-free) province of Warthegau, the ghetto was transformed into a major industrial center, manufacturing much needed war supplies for Nazi Germany and especially for the German Army. The number of people incarcerated in it was augmented further by the Jews deported from the Reich territories.
Because of its remarkable productivity, the ghetto managed to survive until August 1944. In the first two years, it absorbed almost 20,000 Jews from liquidated gettos in nearby Polish towns and villages, as well as 20,000 more from the rest of German-occupied Europe. After the wave of deportations to Chełmno death camp, beginning in early 1942, and in spite of a stark reversal of fortune, the Germans persisted in eradicating the ghetto: they transported the remaining population to Auschwitz and Chełmno extermination camps, where most died upon arrival.
Łódź was the last getto in occupied Poland to be liquidated. A total of 204,000 Jews passed through Łódź, but only 800 remained hidden when the Russians arrived. About 10,000 Jewish residents of Łódź, who used to live there before the invasion of Poland, survived the Holocaust elsewhere.
When German forces occupied Łódź in September 1939, the city had a population of 672,000 people, including over 230,000 Jews. The city was renamed Litzmannstadt in honor of a German general, Karl Litzmann, who had led German forces in the area in 1914.