<< back         Last year during our classes, we wondered how to attract tourists to our city - Lodz. What could be interesting for them? What could we show to encourage them to come back and maybe to tell the others about Lodz? 
On holidays some of us interviewed the peers from other cities, towns and villages. We wanted to find out what they knew about Lodz, its history and monuments.

   The results were shocking!

   Their knowledge was associated with 3 things:

1. Lodz - the city with textile traditions - the city with factories and  workers' tenement houses. 
2. Lodz - Piotrkowska Street - the street known all over Poland as the longest trade street.
3. Lodz - known all over Europe football club - Widzew Lodz.

   What about monuments, history? We are ashamed to admit that they knew nothing!
Since young Polish students know so little about our city, what could people in Europe and in the world know about us?
When we learned about Polish Edition of CyberFair we thought it was a perfect opportunity to tell the world a few words about Lodz.
   We regret to say that at the beginning of the 21st century we are still eye witnesses to dramatic warfare that takes place on the territories of many countries, eye witnesses to horrifying terrorist attacks, as a result of which many innocent people die any many monuments are brought to ruin.
   We consider it necessary to create WWW project, which will express our crying for coming to senses by showing historical places in Lodz connected with the horror of war and human tragedy, . We hope it will be a warning to those who rule our world and it will prove that we, young people, do not want to experience such threats ourselves. We do not want anyone to live through the atrocities of war and terrorism.
   We also hope our project will show Lodz as it really is - a beautiful and interesting city and it will encourage people to visit places which one would not find in the whole world.
Being in the middle of our project we realized that even we, Lodz citizens, knew very little about Lodz's history and the tragedy of its citizens. During our research we found numerous documents and interesting facts which were new for many of us. We met interesting people, visited places we had not been to before although we live here. 
   We are neither historians nor computer scientists but we can assure everybody that collected information is reliable, supported by documents, photocopies, books, magazines, newspapers, and interviews. We found a lot of important data on the Internet all over the world (USA, Germany, Israel, Australia, and Poland of course). And it was a great surprise for us. 
We did not exaggerate anything and we tried not to pass over important facts.

   Have a nice reading and see you in Lodz.

Students and teachers
of General Jozef Wybicki 
Junior High  School Number 24 in Lodz