65 years have passed. The city of Lodz still bears a few traces of Jewish presence. But Yiddish is hardly spoken any more. Recently, a "Survivors' Park" was created in the Ghetto quarter. From 27 to 29 August, some Heads of State, presidents of Jewish communities around the world, survivors of the Lodz Ghetto, whose numbers are dwindling, will be the guests of honour of the city of Lodz, which is hoping to become "European City of Culture" in 2010.
For France's Jews and for CRIF's Remembrance Committee in particular, it is important to maintain contact with the Jewish community in Lodz and Poland in general. Today, the Jewish community in Lodz is barely surviving and consists of only about one thousand people. It is led by Symcha Keller, who is also president of Poland's religious Jewish communities which today, according to him, number between 10 000 and 15 000 Jews. A tragic reminder: before 1939, the Jewish population numbered over three million.
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