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Updated: June 5, 2025
They were escorted by Baron von Maltzahn, former attache of the German Embassy in Paris. At Lodz, one of the largest cities in Poland, they were taken to headquarters. Von Maltzahn, who knew Mackensen personally, called at the Field Marshal's offices, reported that he had escorted six American army officers under orders of the General Staff, whom he desired to present to the Commander-in-Chief.
His Polish family was a large and scattered one; there were nearly a million children in it altogether, and some of them were in Lodz and some in Cracow and others in Brest-Litovsk and Bielostok and even in towns far out on the Eastern frontier near the Polish-Bolshevist fighting lines.
Early in the month the Germans captured Lodz, the second city and chief manufacturing center of Russian Poland, with a population of about 500,000, after a bombardment of a week's duration, the city being set on fire in many places. The Russians made a desperate resistance, and the fighting around Lodz constituted the most bitter struggle of the entire war on this front.
I will share it with for your kindness to my wife and dear little ones," he said in a trembling voice. The men shook their heads, but he insisted, and they took the offered coins, protesting that they would take their passengers safely to Lodz. "Ah! What goodness!" said Michael with deep feeling. "If I could ever repay you!" "That's all right," said one of the soldiers.
For a moment Ivan thought that it would be a good plan to go to the Princess, and tell her that he was in Lodz.
"'Where is Rika?" cried Modjeska. "They could find no trace of any of them," said the Princess. "We can only hope that the boys have taken the little girls either to the American Consul's or away from Warsaw. We will have to trust to them and believe that they are all together, until we can get in touch with them. In the meantime there is but one course open. We must go to the Prince at Lodz."
A typical struggle occurred a few miles west of Lodz in the little churchyard of Beschici, where the Russians, in one of the final phases of the struggle for the Polish city, showed that in spite of their defeats and discouragements they knew how to fight and die. This churchyard lies on a small eminence which formed a salient into the German lines.
Answer, Michael, what did you find out?" "A lot of things," said Michael. "First place, the station is watched, so I bought two tickets for Lodz. We men will go down there tomorrow." "And leave me here!" asked Martha furiously. "No, no, no!" said Michael. "Will you wait until I finish? When I came from the railroad, I passed a great empty motor truck.
You could have sold it for a few kopeks. "I couldn't," said Michael. "All right," said Martha. "This is another matter; these children. You heard what I said. Now here is what I plan. We will go to Lodz and there we will stay for the next year or two. This war cannot last forever, and when it is well past, why, then we will strike out in the world. I know little girls.
She had had a message from the Red Cross Office that we were to go to Lodz next day, and were to go at once to the Hotel Bristol to meet Prince V., who would give us full particulars. We went off at once to the Bristol and saw Prince V., but did not get any particulars that was not the Prince's way.
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