The Centre for Jewish Research at the Institute of History at the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the University of Łódź (UŁ) is now officially named after Filip Friedman, born in Lwów (today’s Lviv) in 1901 and also associated with Łódź as a world-renowned Holocaust researcher. 

The Centre for Jewish Research was established on 1 July 2005 at the UŁ Institute of History. Its activities concern the history of Jews in Poland and focus primarily on the 19th and 20th centuries, which is largely dictated by the specificity of the Łódź region. The history of the Lodz Ghetto and the German occupation in Lodz and the Lodz region occupies a special place in the research conducted by the Centre’s team. It carries out research and publishing projects in cooperation with academic centres at home and abroad.

Among the Centre’s achievements to date are the publication of a five-volume source publication Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto/Litzmannstadt Getto 1941-1944, an Encyclopaedia of the Ghetto and a number of monographs and scientific articles. More sources on the history of the Lodz Ghetto are being successively published.