Plan von Litzmannstadt mit Strassenverzeichnis [“map of Litzmannstadt (Lodz) with street index.”] Prepared by Erwin Thiem.
AUCTION 73 |
Thursday, June 22nd,
2017 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts, Autograph Letters & Graphic Art
Lot 143
(HOLOCAUST).
Plan von Litzmannstadt mit Strassenverzeichnis [“map of Litzmannstadt (Lodz) with street index.”] Prepared by Erwin Thiem.
Litzmannstadt (Lodz): S. Seipelt 1942
Est: $1,200 - $1,800
PRICE REALIZED $2,400
When German forces occupied the large central Polish city of Lodz in September 1939, the city had a population of 672,000, over one-third of whom were Jews. The Reich annexed Lodz directly into the Warthegau region and renamed it Litzmannstadt after General Karl Litzmann, who had led German forces in the area in 1914. The Germans intended to racially “purify” the city, central to which was the segregation and removal of its Jewish community who were henceforth cast with a doomed future. The present map clearly displays how the Nazis radically restructured Lodz’s demographic infrastructure as a way to exclude the city’s Jews.