World War II: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army" id="mw1w" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Red Army">Soviet</a> forces liberate the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Łódź_Ghetto" id="mw2A" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Łódź Ghetto">Łódź Ghetto</a>. Of more than 200,000 inhabitants in 1940, fewer than 900 had survived the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism" id="mw2Q" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nazism">Nazi</a> occupation.