August 28, 1944) was the head of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Łódź Ghetto appointed by Nazi Germany during the German occupation of Poland. Rumkowski...

Second World War, Speyer was deported to the Łódź Ghetto. Situated 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Łódź in the village of Chełmno, the Chełmno extermination...

the Łódź Ghetto in occupied Poland. Biebow's early life is summarized by the following curriculum vitae which he submitted to the German Ghetto Administration...

3 square miles (3.4 km2), or 7.2 persons per room. The Łódź Ghetto (set up in the city of Łódź, renamed Litzmannstadt, in the territories of Poland annexed...

"liquidate" the ghetto and send the Jews to an extermination camp. Most Nazi ghettos were liquidated in 1943; some, such as that of Łódź, persisted until...

witness of The Holocaust. Buzyn was born in Łódź, Poland. Initially, he was with his family in the Łódź Ghetto. As early as January 1945, in front of the...

deputy director of administration of the Łódź Ghetto, Palfinger advocated for "a rapid dying out" of the ghetto's inhabitants. By spring 1940, Alexander...

1920. In late October 1941 Valli and her husband were deported to the Łódź Ghetto where they lived together temporarily with Valli's sister Elli and her...

famous Łódź poet was Itzhak Katzenelson, who lived in Łódź from 1896 to 1939 when he escaped the city. He founded the Habima Hebrew Theater in Łódź. In 1939...

Landau; February 1, 1925 – February 7, 2020) was a survivor of the Łódź (Litzmannstadt) Ghetto and the Nazi German concentration camps of Auschwitz, Neuengamme...

described as an « enquête historique, poétique et philosophique sur les traces de l'extermination des Juifs dans Paris et sa banlieue aujourd'hui » — French...

September 1929 in Łódź, Poland. Records show that Rywka lived in Łódź by January 1, 1938. The family was imprisoned at the Nazi ghetto there in April 1940...

largest ghettos, such as Warsaw and Łódź, were established in existing residential neighborhoods and closed by fences or walls. In many smaller ghettos, Jews...

Moravia, Germany, Luxembourg, and Austria transported to Chełmno via the Łódź Ghetto, on top of the Soviet prisoners of war. The victims were murdered using...

Łódź Ghetto formed. Hundreds of Poles from Łódź massacred by the Germans in the nearby village of Lućmierz-Las. March: 11 Polish boy scouts from Łódź...

the Łódź Ghetto was created for the Jews by the Nazi occupation administration. Żurawia Street, where they used to live, became part of the ghetto area...

the ghetto life included Henryk Ross and Mendel Grossman, both of whom documented the Łódź Ghetto. A number of other photographs of the Jewish ghetto life...

April 1929 – 21 May 2021) was a Polish Holocaust survivor. He was a Łódź Ghetto and Auschwitz Concentration Camp inmate. He was president of the International...

novel follows the life of the Jewish protagonist Jacob Heym in the ghetto of Łódź, Poland during the German occupation of World War II. Jacob met an 8-year-old...

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's...

born in Łódź, Poland in 1922. He was born as Meniek Sztajer, the son of an engineer. In 1944, Arnoni and his family were held in the Łódź Ghetto. In August...

momentum and easily defeated the rear units of the Łódź Army (still in the process of mobilization). Łódź had fallen. The three divisions sent to the border...

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum is a historical museum in Warsaw currently under construction. The target seat of the museum is the historic complex of the former...

hospital upbringing had proven invaluable in the Warsaw Ghetto. After World War II, he studied at Łódź Medical School and became a noted cardiologist who invented...

Fridman, who as an eight-year-old Jewish boy in 1942, escaped the Warsaw Ghetto and survived, largely on his own, for the next three years in rural Nazi...

member of the Łódź City Council, until he was executed by the Gestapo in 1939. After his death, the family was relocated to the Warsaw Ghetto, to await transport...

The Łódź Ghetto was the second largest, holding about 160,000 prisoners. Other large Jewish ghettos in leading Polish cities included Białystok Ghetto in...

Abraham Cykiert was born 26 April 1926 in Łódź, Second Polish Republic. As a child, he was forced to live in Łódź Ghetto during the German occupation of Poland...

Solek travels to Łódź to find his family; however, the ghetto is sealed off and guarded. Solek rides a tram that travels through the ghetto, observing sights...

Choko was born in Łódź, Poland on 18 September 1928. She and her parents were driven out of their pharmacy and sent to the Łódź Ghetto established in 1940...