More than 100 photos of old Lodz in the hall of the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the University of Lodz.
The photographs were taken between 1936 and 1940 and present images of the life of the city and its inhabitants. Their author, Waldemar Rode, was a German who lived in Lodz until 1945. He was a member of the Photography Lovers Club from Lodz. His photos were exhibited at exhibitions and published in the Polish press. In 1939, together with the photographer Alfred Kiss, he created a photographic archive whose aim was to record the presence of Germans in Poland. He died in Germany in 1983.
Photographs by Waldemar Rode are in the resources of the Martin-Opitz-Bibliothek in Herne, the Provincial Public Library in Lodz, while the materials from Archiv Ostlandbild, which he created together with Kiss, are in the Digital Library at the Provincial Public Library in Lodz.
The exhibition has been organised by the urban think tank ThinkLodz.
Edit: Communications and PR Centre, University of Lodz