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Informationen zum Autor Isaiah Trunk (1905-1982) was Senior Research Associate and Chief Archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He is author of Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation. Robert Moses Shapiro is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is editor of Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Describes 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
