The old palaces, residences and factories once owned by Jews, and preserved to this day, reflect the city’s vast industrial potential at the time. The most famous highlights of the city include the Izrael Poznański Empire at 17 Ogrodowa Street, a factory and residential complex built in the second half of the 19th century. It embraced factory plants, the owner’s palace and workers’ homes on the other side of Ogrodowa Street. This complex is nowadays occupied by the “Manufaktura” commercial and entertainment centre. The imposing edifice of Izrael Poznański’s Palace at 15 Ogrodowa is the largest industrial tycoon’s residence in all Poland. Its design incorporating many different styles is typically eclectic. Since 1975, the palace is the seat of the Łódź City Museum housing biography rooms of the city’s famous sons Julian Tuwim, Aleksander Tansman, Artur Rubinstein, Jan Karski, and Karol Dedecius.
Another palace, once owned by Karol Poznański, the son of Israel, is ituated at 23 Gdańska Street. The mansion was built in 1904 in neo-Renaissance style and its stately character is strongly underlined by its luxury interior design. These days the building houses the Music Academy.
Situated in the courtyard of a huge building at 28 Rewolucji 1905 Street is a synagogue, the only one in the city preserved to this day. It was built between 1895 and 1900 by the Reigher family foundation and only survived the Second World War because it was used for storing salt.
The Jewish Cemetery at Bracka Street is the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe with more than 180 000 graves. Towering over its central part are the monumental tombs of industrialists’ families of Silberstein, Poznański, Kon and Jarociński. Buried in the southern part of the cemetery are some 45.000 Jews exterminated by the Nazis in the Litzamannstadt Ghetto.
To commemorate the tragedy of the Łódź Jews in WW2, a Holocaust Memorial was erected at the former train station of Radegast at Stalowa Street where the city’s Jewish inhabitants were gathered for transport out of the Ghetto to death camps. A museum is located in the former station building. All the major celebrations in tribute to the Holocaust victims are held at this memorial site. Situated in Łódź at 83 Wojska Polskiego Street is the Park of the Survivors, with more than 400 trees planted by those who survived the Holocaust and a monument to the Poles who saved Jews during WW2.
Nowadays, Łódź is a major cultural, scientific and educational centre highly regarded for its rich heritage of traditions and present-day accomplishments. Łódż was the birth place of the world famous Polish pianist Artur Rubinstein and Poland’s most renowned poet Julian Tuwim. The city’s backbone and major attraction is Piotrkowska Street, one of the longest commercial thoroughfares in Europe housing great institutions, banks, shops and countless restaurants, pubs, pavement cafes, antique shops, art galleries, cinemas and other cultural institutions. International theatre, film, music, photographic art and literary festivals held every year attract to Łódż artists from throughout the world.
Łódź is a throbbing and pulsating city with numerous attractions offered to visitors. It is really a city with soul!

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(The Łódź City Authority Office for Promotion, Tourism and Cooperation with Abroad)
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