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The Lodz Ghetto 1940 - 1944


The First Months of Occupation

The Beginning of the “Closed District”

Story date: October 1939

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German Propaganda Photo used to Overstate Jewish Wealth.

Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski

Story date: February 27, 1877 - August 28, 1944

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Give Me Your Children

Searching for Food at the Ghetto Dump

Rare Photo of a Jewish Round-up in Lodz

Lotz In Photos

Resistance in the Ghetto

Hans Biebow

Story date: December 18, 1902 – April 24, 1947

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Salomea "Sally" Kape

Yosel Coller Born: Lodz, Poland August 10, 1927

Story date: November 9, 1939

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Paula Garfinkel Born: Lodz, Poland December 3, 1920

Story date: 1945

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Beno Helmer Born: 1923, Teplice-Sanov, Czechoslovakia

Leo Schneiderman Born: 1921, Lodz, Poland

Hela Szabszevicz Born: Lodz, Poland 1900

Story date: 1900~April 4, 1943

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Machla Spicehandler Braun Born: Lowicz, Poland ca. 1886

Story date: April 1945

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Benjamin Bornstein Born: Lodz, Poland April 30, 1930

Shlomo Reich Born: Lodz, Poland June 18, 1914

Gypsy camp in the Lodz ghetto. Poland, 1941-1944.

A Young Boy Eating in Unsanitary Conditions

She was Deported to Lodz Ghetto and Dies on January 1, 1942

Szymon Szerman

Story date: 1917-1942

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Children in the Lodz Ghetto

Ilona Winograd

Story date: 1943

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Carpenter’s Workshop, Spring 1942.

One More Starving Child

Deportations from the Greater German Reich to the Lodz Ghetto

Story date: October – November 1941

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The Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak

Story date: 8 August 1943

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Salomon Hercberg

Story date: 12 March 1942

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Radogoszcz Police Prison Lodz Ghetto

Mendel Grossman The Lodz Ghetto Photographer

Kuperman Michal

Story date: 5/05/1894~16 June 1944

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Rapaport Icek

Story date: 14/03/1925~14/6/1944

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Rapaport Chana Laja

Story date: 10/02/1914

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Gutentag Frymeta

Story date: 18/05/1928~ 23/6/1944

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Dawidowicz Estera

Kupfer Rachela

Story date: 1904

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Nordon Mendel

Story date: 18/09/1921~ 19/9/1944

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Kufert Perla

Story date: 1915~26/6/1943

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Dobraszklanka Chana maiden name Greber

Story date: 30/11/1892~19/5/1940

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Dobraszklanka David

Story date: 15/07/1899~

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Dobraszklanka Fajga

Story date: 6/09/1920

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Dobraszklanka Ruchla

Story date: 18/09/1904

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Postcard 18/12/41

Story date: 18/12/41

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N. Zmigrad Sosnowitz

Story date: 18/12/1941

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Ghetto Marriage Cert.

Holcmann Dawid-Jozef

Story date: 21 March 1942~31/3/1947

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Szejma Aron Lewin

Announcement 394

Announcement 313

Ghetto Newspaper

Story date: 20/6/1941

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Ghetto Calendar 1944

POSTCARDS LODZ GHETTO

Written 7/1/1941 Never Posted

Identity card of Rudolf Kohn, deported from Vienna to the ghetto in Lódz.

Simon Waksberg

Story date: 1921~

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University Mourns Loss of Rosenfarb

Ghetto Fighters House

Park of the Lodz Ghetto Survivors.

Photo

Story date: September 1942

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Bernard #122536

Joe Diamond

Lodz Ghetto Cemetery

A photograph of Orphaned Children Within the Lodz Ghetto.

Jewish New Year's Card Sent From Lodz

Yosef Baum's Family

Lodz - Ghetto: The midwife from Lodz by Salomea Kape

Story date: November 1944

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William Bernheim On William Bernheim:

Story date: December 13, 1922

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Jerzy Zachariasz: Obituaries

Story date: 2, 4, 2001

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Anonymous Girl Diarist from the Lodz Ghetto

Story date: 1942

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Boxcar to Auschwitz

Kissing Baby Goodbye!

A Child Deported During the “Sperre” in the Lodz Ghetto, Poland

Story location: PolandStory date: September 5, 1942

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The Portrait was made by Henryk Ross

Helen (Jachimowicz) Potash

Story date: June 26, 1929 ~December 25, 2009

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Children and Their Teacher in the Lodz Ghetto, 1941.

Abuse and Humiliation

The Lodz Ghetto in Words

Story date: September 4, 1942~January 20, 1945

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The Story of Dwosia Spektor

Story date: March 20, 1885~

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Victor Breitburg

Official identification Card Bearing a Large Yellow Star.

David P. Boder Interviews Jacob Minski; August 23, 1946; Paris, France

Story date: 1907

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David P. Boder Interviews Adam Krakowski; July 30, 1946; Paris, France

Story date: 1925

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David P. Boder Interviews Mendel Herskovitz; July 31, 1946; Fontenay-aux-Roses, France

The Life of Natan Abbe

Story date: 1924~1940

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The Life of Lenka Nadolna

Story date: 1936~

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The Life of Edzia Abbe

Story date: 1926~

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The Life of Chaim Blachman

Story date: October 30, 1927~

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The First German Jews Arrive in the Ghetto

Story date: October, 19, 1941

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Resistance within the Lodz Ghetto

The BERKOWICZ Family

The Lodz Ghetto Archive

Story date: October 1946

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Model of Lodz Ghetto

“Something about Horticulture in the Ghetto”

Waiting For Food

Three Generations of the Kochberg Family (picture is from 1912)

878 Survive in Lodz Out of 250,000 Jews

Jankiel Herszkowicz

Story date: March 25, 1972.

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Zeev Kibel

Gypsy Elimination

PISAREK, Alter

Story date: 1925

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Voices of the Shoah~Survivors

Marek Szukalak

Story date: 1899–1944

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Benjamin L. Sieradzki

Story date: July 2011

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Leon Zelman OBM

Story date: 12 June 1928~11 July 2007

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