One of the identified graves of Ghetto Field at the New Jewish Cemetery in Lodz. The Ghetto Field consists of about 45 thousand graves of people, who died in Ghetto. They were buried over there in the individual graves in accordance with the provisions of the Jewish religion. However most of those graves are not traceable on the surface (apart of those with the concrete gravestones). Nowadays the Ghetto field is reconstructed and the graves are being identified (following the archives of the cemetery) under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence of Israel. Camera: Samsung GX10, lens: Sigma 24-70m F/2.8 EX DG, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com

One of the gravestones in the almost abandoned,not maintained and ovegrown part of the cemetery. The inscription on the stone is somehow symbolic due to the date of death - 1942. Amanda Fraenkel, as many other people, was trapped in the Litzmannstadt ghetto where she died. Her daugher or son erected a gravestone (probably soon after the burial). Did she or he (or they) survived?  45 thousands of Jews who died in the ghetto had been buried at the New Jewish Cemetery, in acordance to the Jewish religion at least. Today their greaves are more or less traceable and they are not anonymous. Those hundred thousands who were sent to the nazi-German death camps of Kulmhof and Auschwitz were turned to dust with no graves and nameless (SS kommando of Kulmhof ordered even special bone grinder to leave no traces of their genocide).  Camera: Samsung GX10, lens: Sigma 24-70m F/2.8 EX DG, HDR, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com

The gravestones (macews) covered by the ivy at the New Jewish Cemetery in Lodz - the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe. Camera: Samsung GX10, lens: Sigma 24-70m F/2.8 EX DG, HDR, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com

The look over the gravestones (macews) at the mausoleum of Poznanski family. The New Jewish Cemetery in Lodz, founded by Izreael Poznanski (the one of the founders of modern Lodz and and the biggest factory owner) and opened in 10 November 1892 (at the same day the old cemetery at Wesola Street was closed down). The New Cemetery was placed at the grounds of Marysin and Arturowek bought from the Julius Heinzl. The cemetery is a place of rest of many noble citizens of Lodz, together with the noble families of Poznanski, Silberstein, Jarocinski, Barcinski, Katsenberg, Kohn, Prussak, graves of Wladyslaw Pinkus (founder of the modern rescue/ambulance service in Lodz), graves of the parents of the famous Polish poet Julian Tuwim and famous Polish pianist Artur Rubinstein. The New Jewish Cemetery in Lodz is the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe and its acreage is 42 hectacres with the 230 thousands of the burials, including 45 thousands at the Ghetto Field. The cemetery was seriously destroyed during the 1st World War and renovated after the regaining of the independence. During the 2nd World War cemetery was a part of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto and about 45 thousand Jews - who died in Ghetto - were buried over there in the individual graves  in accordance with the provisions of the Jewish religion. However most of those graves are not traceable on the surface (apart of those with the concrete gravestones). Nowadays the Ghetto field is reconstructed and the graves are being identified (following the archives of the cemetery) under the auspices of the Ministry of Defence of Israel. Camera: Samsung GX10, lens: Sigma 24-70m F/2.8 EX DG, HDR, photo: Krystian Kozerawski, www.kozerawski.com

The tenant house at Franciszkanska Street (close to the Wolborska Street and Smugowa Street). The one of the first tenants on the ghetto side (the gate was placed just about 100 meters away). The old tenants of old Baluty and Marysin haven’t been renovated for decades - I dare say, they haven’t been renovated at all since the pre war time. As you can see, some of the windows have the original wooden frames.

Night time traffic at the junction of Zgierska street,the Wojska Polskiego Street (Polish Army Street) and the Church Square (Plac Kościelny) with the Gothic-revival church of the assumption of St Marry. Place of the historical importance of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto - the place where the wooden bridge was built. The bridge was to link two parts of the ghetto over the Zgierska Street, that was excluded of the ghetto for the transit traffic (only the sidewalks and the houses were in the ghetto while the street road itself was behind the fence). The place where the bridge was placed is whole right side of the photo (almost from the centre). This place haven’t changed much. Camera: Samsung GX10.

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

My wife Agnes in park. Camera: Samsung GX10, Lens: Sigma 70 - 300 APO DG MACRO

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.