My wife Agnes in park. Camera: Samsung GX10, Lens: Sigma 70 - 300 APO DG MACRO
Agnes autumn my wife PeopleArchive for October, 2008
Lodz, Poland, Baluty district, former Litzmannstadt Ghetto, Broken Heart Memorial built in memory of Polish children, the prisoners of the only one concentration camp for Polish children only. The prison officially named (in German): Polen-Jugendverwahrlager der Sicherheitspolizei in Litzmannstadt was actually small concentration camp for young Poles (2 years old kids and teenagers) was opened in November 1942 at Przemysłowa Street inside the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, just nearby the Kirkut - Jewish cemetery. The KL had a 3 meters high barbed wire fence, wooden watchtowers, blockhouses, main square, internal prison and the house of tortures. The food rations were lower than in the other concentration camps. The statue was built at the other end of the camp. There is an inscription in the fron of the monument - “They taken your lives. Today we can offer you only memory”. The surroundings areas (also former Litzmannstadt Ghetto) were changed to the park.
2WW black and white cities and towns ghetto history Litzmannstadt lodz People Poland Situations
Nikiszowiec, (Nikischau or Nikischenwald). The settlement is a historical part of Katowice (Kattowitz) - workers estate built in the village Janow for miners, named after the pit-shaft “Nickisch” (after Kurt Nickisch) one of 14 pit-shafts of coal mine “Giesche”. Designed by Emil and Georg Zillmann from Charlottenburg.
architecture black and white cities and towns industrial Katowice Kattowitz Nikischau Nikisz Nikiszowiec Poland Schlesien Silesia Slask
Nikiszowiec, (Nikischau or Nikischenwald). The settlement is a historical part of Katowice (Kattowitz) - workers estate built in the village Janow for miners, named after the pit-shaft “Nickisch” (after Kurt Nickisch) one of 14 pit-shafts of coal mine “Giesche”. Designed by Emil and Georg Zillmann from Charlottenburg.
architecture black and white cities and towns industrial Katowice Kattowitz Nikischau Nikisz Nikiszowiec Poland Schlesien Silesia Slask
