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Soon after, Lowell’s family received a visit one night from Nazi officers, who deported the Emmerich’s to the Lodz ghetto in Poland. “We had just finished supper,” she said.
Soon after, Lowell’s family received a visit one night from Nazi officers, who deported the Emmerich’s to the Lodz ghetto in Poland. “We had just finished supper,” she said.
Holocaust survivor Morris Glass recalls life in the Lodz Ghetto, marked by starvation, forced labor, and the loss of children, the elderly, and sick. Hope and resilience kept the Jewish people going.
List of persons living at Am Bach, street nr. 9, apartment nr. 3 in the Lodz Ghetto. List includes first and last names and employment status of persons living in the apartment. The list also includes ...
Reprinting of the 1994 ed. (5 vols.) that was generated from a computer file of the data used to compile the earlier work. Contains list of c. 200,000 names of individuals interned in the Lodz ghetto.
On 19 October, 1941 – a month after being compelled to wear a yellow star – Zila was taken on one of the first transports from Berlin to the Lodz Ghetto in central Poland.
The Lodz ghetto was administered by the controversial “Elder of the Jews,” Chaim Rumkowski. (Day-to-day life in the ghettos was typically run by Jews appointed by the Nazis.) ...
According to the UMJA records, Eugenia Lewin was born on December 21st, 1920, in Lodz, Poland. While it is of course possible that two individuals named Eugenia Lewin were interned in the Lodz ghetto, ...
They also established in Lodz the second-largest ghetto, prison to 200,000 Jews. Today, the authorities insist on calling the Lodz Ghetto the Litzmannstadt Ghetto, perpetuating the Nazi nomenclature.
It ordered the evacuation of Jews into the ghetto by Dec. 31, 1940, and removal of Poles and Germans from the ghetto by Feb. 29, 1940. The order, signed by the Nazi chief of Police in Lodz, states: ...
Through Stephen’s connections, the Wolkowicz family was luckily placed on a list of 500 ‘experienced’ metal workers who escaped deportation to camps until August 1944 when the ghetto was liquidated ...