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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... mind's eye I can still see the overcrowded funeral parlor , the gigantic hall , the corridors and chapel filled to capacity with corpses . I remember the rigorous control the Germans had kept over our work . They prohibited all the ...
... mind's eye I can still see the overcrowded funeral parlor , the gigantic hall , the corridors and chapel filled to capacity with corpses . I remember the rigorous control the Germans had kept over our work . They prohibited all the ...
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... mind . Then one day , while I was walking aimlessly in the street , I noticed a little girl sleeping in the gutter . I bent down to pick her up . She was cold -- she was dead ! " Who was she ? What was her name ? Could I have saved her ...
... mind . Then one day , while I was walking aimlessly in the street , I noticed a little girl sleeping in the gutter . I bent down to pick her up . She was cold -- she was dead ! " Who was she ? What was her name ? Could I have saved her ...
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... mind . He reasoned : To get your soup you've got to stand in line for hours . And what do you think off , what do you yearn for ? What are your expectations , and what are you stirred by , here in the ghetto ? You are stirred by a ball ...
... mind . He reasoned : To get your soup you've got to stand in line for hours . And what do you think off , what do you yearn for ? What are your expectations , and what are you stirred by , here in the ghetto ? You are stirred by a ball ...
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Preface | 9 |
The Onslaught | 27 |
Infamy | 34 |
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