Update: Enjoy Łódź – but don’t omit its tragic past | Letter

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Dr Richard Bradbury responds to a travel article about the Polish city, home to one of the largest Jewish ghettos during Nazi occupation I was shocked to read your travel article detailing the delights of Łódź without a single mention of the city’s past as the site of one of the largest ghettos during the second world war ( A city break in Łódź, Poland’s capital of cinema and factories, 5 September ). The report also notes that The article states: “I ask Anna how Łódź fared in the second world war. ‘It was not too badly damaged,’ she states. ‘Both the Germans and the Russians wanted the industry intact.’” I wonder how the surviving family members of the perhaps 200,000 people who died following being herded into the ghetto, often to work as slaves for the Nazi war effort, would feel about that.

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