Word: lodz
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...vote, the tour will be zooming around Ireland - which happens to be the biggest net beneficiary of E.U. subsidies - trying to convince its voters to make the E.U. harder for other small nations to join. Different place, same cold feet: it's evening in Skaradki, a tiny village near Lodz in the Polish heartland. The primary school gym is decked out with bunting and tables are groaning with homemade sausages and dumplings as about 450 people from all over Poland gathered for a farmers' congress toss back vodka at a rate their visitor cannot match. Danuta Hübner...
...LIFE IN LODZ...
...Kirkus is deeply moved by "In the Beginning was the Ghetto: 890 Days in Lodz" by Oskar Rosenfeld, translated by Brigitte Goldstein (Northwestern; November), giving it a starred review. "'Who in future times will believe that human beings fought each other over a potato?' So asks this utterly unsentimental, open-eyed, harrowing portrait of ghetto life during the Holocaust...Rosenfeld was a modestly successful writer of novels and novellas when the Nazi Anschluss forced him to flee to Prague. Following the German conquest of Czechoslovakia, he was transported to the ghetto of Lodz, Poland, where he was put to work...