Preserved Evidence: Ghetto Lodz, Band 1H. Eibeshitz Institute for Holocaust Studies, 1998 A history of the Łódź ghetto, interspersed with numerous excerpts from survivors' testimonies and documents from the Yad Vashem archives. Vol. I discusses the first days of the occupation; the activities of Chaim Rumkowski and the Judenrat; work in the ghetto, which the Jews believed could save them; the situation of the children; religious life, which went on despite the unbearable conditions; the deportations to Chełmno; attempts at passive resistance; and the ghetto's liquidation in 1944. Only 870 Jews from the ghetto survived. In Vol. II, pp. 377-447, "Auschwitz", contain excerpts from accounts by Jews of Łódź who survived Auschwitz. Pp. 448-502, "The Marches", contain accounts of those who were transferred from Auschwitz to various labor camps. Pp. 515-684 contain personal accounts on the Łódź ghetto and on postwar Poland. One of the accounts deals with the activities of the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement in the ghetto. |
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... Nazi regime bore no resemblance at all to those of the past . The Lodz ghetto would not be an oasis of calm and nurturance , but rather an instrument of misery and destruction , a world governed not by Talmudic law but by Nazi edict ...
... Nazi regime bore no resemblance at all to those of the past . The Lodz ghetto would not be an oasis of calm and nurturance , but rather an instrument of misery and destruction , a world governed not by Talmudic law but by Nazi edict ...
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... Nazi occupation opened a new era for this man of ambition . In a directive dated September 12 , 1939 , and signed by Reich Security chief Reinhard Heydrich , every Jewish community in Nazi Poland was to have a council of elders , a ...
... Nazi occupation opened a new era for this man of ambition . In a directive dated September 12 , 1939 , and signed by Reich Security chief Reinhard Heydrich , every Jewish community in Nazi Poland was to have a council of elders , a ...
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... Nazi rule . Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationalists , for example , as well as Soviet prisoners of war , were allowed to serve in Wehrmacht or SS units . The Jews were the only group whose complete eradication the Nazis demanded ...
... Nazi rule . Ukrainian and Lithuanian nationalists , for example , as well as Soviet prisoners of war , were allowed to serve in Wehrmacht or SS units . The Jews were the only group whose complete eradication the Nazis demanded ...
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Preface | 9 |
The Onslaught | 27 |
Infamy | 34 |
Urheberrecht | |
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