Lodz, Poland was the second largest Jewish population in Poland before the war. It was located 75 miles southwest of Warsaw, Poland. A week after Germany invaded Poland in 1939, German troops overtook the city and renamed it Litzmannstadt. In February 1940, the Germans made a ghetto in northeast Lodz. 160,000 Jews were sent to that ghetto. Hundreds of factories were established in the ghetto for the Jews to be forced to work. The living quarters had no running water or sewer system. They were rarely given food and many starved while being forced to work for long hours. 20% of the ghetto's population died because of the bad conditions.
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