Poland due to its central location in Poland and due to the fact that the city itself, compared to Warsaw, was not destroyed. Therefore, in 1945–1948, the Polish authorities and its central institutions were located in Łódź. For the same reason, the Jewish community in Łódź was extremely important in Poland, both quantitatively and organizationally and institutionally. Because of this challenge, the Łódź Jewish Committee was established. His main role was to rehabilitate the Sh'erit ha-Pletah, including housing, clothing, food, work, medical assistance, assistance in finding relatives and family reunification. The main source of aid was the JDC, which resumed operations in Poland in September 1946, and the TAZ. The ORT organization also resumed its operations in Poland at about the same time. The magnitude of the Holocaust, and the large number of Jews who arrived in Lodz within a few months after the Holocaust, presented the committee with many difficult tasks. The committee also worked in the field of children, almost all of whom were orphans. The activities of the orphanage were renewed, and efforts were made to remove Jewish orphans hidden in them during the Holocaust. After the Kielce pogrom, nearly half of the Jews of Łódź left Poland. The remaining Jewish community began to recover: a theater, two schools and about 20 newspapers and magazines in Yiddish, Hebrew and Polish began to operate. In the years 1956–1957, more Jews left the city, moving to Israel as part of the Gomulka Aliyah (). In 1969, following the 1968 anti-Jewish campaign, people of Jewish origin left Łódź again. See also History of Łódź History of the Jews in Białystok The Holocaust in Poland Antisemitism in Poland Kinder KZ Jewish-Polish history (1989–present) Rescue of Jews by Poles during the Holocaust References Jewish Łódź Łódź he:קהילת יהודי לודז' uk:Єврейська громада Лодзі