Word: lodz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...site of his long-planned Jew-sump. By next April 1, according to a German government decree, 150,000 Jews must be evacuated to Lublin or other "reservations" like it from Bohemia, 65,000 from Vienna, 30,000 from Posen and the onetime Polish Corridor, 175,000 from the Lodz district, 240,000 from Germany proper...
...Grudziadz. After four days, it made contact with another force driving across the Corridor from the west to cut the Warsaw-Gdynia rail line. Also from East Prussia went a column aimed at Mlawa and Pultusk. Based on Breslau, a many-headed fourth Nazi onslaught was launched toward Lodz, Kielce and Cracow. Based on Bratislava in Slovakia, a fifth and sixth spearhead were driven up through the Jablonka Pass and over the steep Tatras to the East. Radomska, Czestochowa, Katowice, Teschen and Nowy Targ were the first targets of these southwestern assaults. German commanders claimed to be taking all objectives...
...trade war, and the rumors began: at 7 o'clock August 6 trouble would break when Nazis refused to recognize the authority of customs officials; highly placed Poles were preparing to flee; stories from Berlin had German officers getting assignments for August 19 in the Polish towns of Lodz and Posen. All this added warmth to a simple speech by Marshal Smigly-Rydz on the 25th anniversary of the entrance of the Polish Legion into the War: "August the Sixth," said he, "is like the sunrise...
Israel Joshua Singer's big book, published two years ago, was The Brothers Ashkenazi, a chronicle of Polish Jewry told against a background of the textile industry of Lodz. Critics praised the vigor of its narrative, verisimilitude of its atmosphere, especially its detachment. Some critics called it a Polish Forsyte Saga; a few went so far as to call Author Singer the Polish Tolstoy...
Before their personal rivalry reached its great climax the War broke. Max made another fortune in Russia, was arrested by the Bolsheviks, saved by his brother, who was killed in an anti-Semitic outbreak. Max returned to Lodz to build still another fortune. But the prosperity of Lodz had depended on the Russian market, and as panic followed inflation the grimy "Manchester of Europe" lost its reason for being, and Max symbolically died as his city began to stagnate...