Description
Book SynopsisDescribes and explains the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in the first major ghetto imposed by the Germans. This book 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.
Trade ReviewA monumental work.
* Financial Times *
Trunk's essential volume provides invaluable material for yet more objective 'appreciations' of the terrible plight of the Jewish leaderships and inhabitants in the 'ghettos for Jews' set up by the Nazi authorities in the East. Vol. 89, no. 1, January 2011
* Slavonic and East European Review *
This translation . . . makes available an invaluable resource for English-language readers. . . . The book is handsomely produced and, in addition to 141 original documents (in translation), an extraordinarily detailed index, and period photographs, contains informative essays by translator-editor Shapiro and two renowned Holocaust scholars, the late Joseph Kermish and Israel Gutman. An indispensable tool for Holocaust research. . . . Essential.
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Table of ContentsContents
List of Major Tables, Charts, and Maps
List of Abbreviations
Translator-Editor's Introduction Robert Moses Shapiro
Isaiah Trunk Joseph Kermish
Introduction: The Distinctiveness of the Lódz Ghetto Israel Gutman
Foreword Jacob Robinson
Author's Preface Isaiah 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
