High Tatra Mountains, Slovakia, view from Lomnica to the west. February 2009. Camera: Samsung GX 10 + Sigma 24-70mm F1:2.8 EXG
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This is the old communist era hotel, a part of a first glimpse of Lodz for every newcomer, who travels from Warsaw to Lodz and who arrives in Lodz Fabryczna train station. Photo taken during the tests of my new lens - Sigma 24-70mm F/2.8 EX DG (lens with the constant exposure). Camera: Samsung GX 10
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.
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.
