Moments after arriving in Lodz, central Poland ... The complex’s grandest building is factory owner Poznański’s former home – a neo-Baroque palace which is now a museum.

A former textile manufacturing hub, the last century or so has been a mixed bag for Lodz, Poland. World War II saw Nazi occupation followed by the woes of the Cold War. The fall of the Soviet ...

We were so hungry we could have swallowed wood." Established in February 1940 after Germany conquered Poland, the Lodz ghetto imprisoned more than 160,000 Jews - Europe's second largest Jewish ...