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In his comprehensive examination of the Lódz Ghetto, originally published in Yiddish in 1962, historian Isaiah Trunk sought to describe and explain the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in the first major ghetto imposed by the Germans after they invaded Poland in 1939. Lódz had been home to nearly a quarter million Jews. When the Soviet military arrived in January 1945, they found 877 living Jews and the remains of a vast industrial enterprise that had employed masses of enslaved Jewish laborers. Based on an exhaustive study of primary sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, German, and Russian, Isaiah Trunk, a former resident of Lódz, reconstructs the organization of the ghetto and discusses its provisioning; forced labor; diseases and mortality; crime and deportations; living conditions; political, social, and cultural life; and resistance. Included are translations of the 141 documents that Trunk reproduced in his volume.
Contents
Contents
List of Major Tables, Charts, and Maps
List of Abbreviations
Translator-Editor's IntroductionRobert Moses Shapiro
Isaiah TrunkJoseph Kermish
Introduction: The Distinctiveness of the Lódz GhettoIsrael Gutman
ForewordJacob Robinson
Author's PrefaceIsaiah Trunk
I. Establishment of the Ghetto
Documents 1-23
II. Organization of the Ghetto
Documents 26-64
III. Provisioning
Documents 65-83
IV. Forced Labor
Documents 84-95
V. Diseases and Mortality
VI. Persecutions, Murder, and Deportations
Documents 96-112
VII. Internal Conditions
Documents 113-141
VIII. The Problem of Resistance
IX. Conclusions and Summations
Documents Arranged by Chapter
Street Names in Lódz Ghetto
Bibliography
Indexes
Names of German Officials and Business Firms
Places
Subjects
