[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] writing family history

[Dave Obee]

Irene's email came through to me with the special characters intact. Odd.

Also, note that the Germans referred to the city as Lodsch originally, then
changed it to Litzmannstadt. You will see the spelling Lodsch on maps and
documents published early in the war. Some of them were reprinted in a
couple of the history books I bought in Lodz when I was there last year.

Dave Obee


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Frank" <FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca>
To: "Irene König" <kopetzke at gmx.net>; <rlyster at telusplanet.net>
Cc: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 11:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] writing family history


At 10:40 AM 19/11/2006, Irene König wrote:
>rlyster at telusplanet.net schrieb am 19.11.2006
>16:41 Uhr: > > Lotsch = Litzmanstadt   or is it
>Lodz ?  (Spellings please) The name of the town
>is Łódź. It was Litzmannstadt between 1940
>and 1945. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodz irene



Irene's text got messed up because our mailing
list will not transmit special characters.

The fully correct spelling for Lodz is to
reproduce the Polish character L with a slash
through it.  The approximate sort of almost
pronunciation of it is something like "vwudge" but don't hold me to that.
:-)

If you want to show it correctly in your family
history book, you can do so by inserting it as a
special character in most word processors.



Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca




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