The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Prague - Gunter Demnig kneels on Prague's poshest shopping street, tapping a shining block into the cobblestone pavement beside a luxury-watch store. Here lived Eva Abelesova, born 1930, deported to Lodz in 1941 and murdered, reads the inscription ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Prague - Gunter Demnig kneels on Prague's poshest shopping street, tapping a shining block into the cobblestone pavement beside a luxury-watch store. Here lived Eva Abelesova, born 1930, deported to Lodz in 1941 and murdered, reads the inscription ...
Irish Election (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
And the overall economy? Today’s Wall Street Journal reports on what sounds like advanced deliberations inside Dell about shifting its manufacturing capacity from Limerick to Lodz in Poland. Office jobs in Ireland would be retained. But as the article explains, Dell is unusual among computer makers in its retention of substantial manufacturing capacity — most [...]
New York Times (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
The fourth World University Bridge Championship ended on Tuesday in Lodz, Poland.
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Irish low-cost airline Ryanair (RYA.I: ) has delayed 11 new routes blaming a machinist strike at planemaker Boeing (BA.N: ) which has caused the indefinite delay of two new aircraft.The company said on Tuesday the launch of new routes between Scottish capital Edinburgh and a range of destinations from Bournemouth in the UK to Lodz in Poland would be delayed by six weeks to...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Segal was born into a well-to-do Jewish family in August 1918 in Lodz: "Poland's equivalent of Manchester. A horrible, industrial place. Ugh." Her father was a successful lawyer, although when she was 12 or 13 the family moved with him to Geneva, where he had taken a job editing one of the publications of the League of Nations. The international school she found herself in was an eye-opener....
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
... at the tender age of 13 Halter helped to bury him. Halter was then sent on to the Jewish ghetto in Lodz where he was forced to work in a metal factory for the Nazi regime. He then went via the Auschwitzz and Stutthof concentration camps, to work as slave labour in a munitions factory in Germany . By the age of 17 his entire family had also died. At the end of the war Halter returned home...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
... solace I knew. It helped me heal my wounds," she said. Fellow artist Edith Birkin was sent to the Lodz ghetto in Nazi- occupied Poland in 1941. Her parents died a year later and her painting A Camp Of Twins shows rows of impassive faces, suggesting the loneliness of living in a camp of strangers. "I wanted to show what it felt like to be a human being in the starved, emaciated, strange looking...
Monsters and Critics (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
... solace I knew. It helped me heal my wounds,' she said. Fellow artist Edith Birkin was sent to the Lodz ghetto in Nazi- occupied Poland in 1941. Her parents died a year later and her painting A Camp Of Twins shows rows of impassive faces, suggesting the loneliness of living in a camp of strangers. 'I wanted to show what it felt like to be a human being in the starved, emaciated, strange looking...
Xbitlabs (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... in Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Ireland, India, China, Brazil, Malaysia and Lodz, Poland, where it opened a plant early last year, the WSJ reports. Outsourcing production to contract makers like Flextronics or Foxconn would cut manufacturing costs of Dell.It is not clear how Dell plans to continue with its built-to-order strategy when all of its desktops are made by contract...
