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Warsaw Ghetto uprising
An uprising broke out in the Warsaw ghetto, with fighters acting in the name of the remaining Jews.
Lodz Ghetto transports to Birkenau
Transports from the Lodz Ghetto arrived at Birkenau during the final deportation.
Lodz declared a factory city
Lodz was declared a factory city on September 18, 1820.
German entry into Lodz
Germans entered Lodz in September 1939.
Establishment of the Lodz Jewish quarter
The Germans created the Jewish quarter and appointed Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski as its elder.
Arrest of Jewish social activists
German authorities arrested several responsible Jewish social activists and imprisoned them at Radogoszcz.
Chaim Leib Poznanski
Jewish social activist arrested by the Germans.
A. Holenderski
Jewish social activist arrested by the Germans.
Berkowicz
Jewish social activist arrested by the Germans.
Joseph Morgentaler
Jewish social activist arrested by the Germans.
German occupying authority
German authorities that established and controlled the Jewish quarter.
Liberation of Lodz
Lodz was liberated in 1949.
Nazis
Nazi authorities described as pursuing systematic persecution and murder.
Third Reich
State into which Lodz was incorporated.
Jewish population
Jewish population described as isolated and persecuted.
Ghettos and camps
Ghettos and camps mentioned as means of isolating Jewish people.
Judenrat
The Jewish council organized cultural events in the ghetto.
Litzmanshtater Geto Tsaytung
A ghetto newspaper issued by the Judenrat carried German and Rumkowski ordinances.
Mordechai Rumkowski
Rumkowski’s ordinances and activities were reported in the ghetto newspaper.
Asia
Asia is mentioned among places where people worked or fought during the war.
Siberia
Siberia is mentioned among places where people worked or fought during the war.
Lodz cemetery
Cemetery presented as a sacred burial place and symbol of dreams and hopes.
Zionist movement
Movement that incorporated people into kibbutzim and assisted Jewish emigration.
Bricha
Underground network that helped Jews leave Poland and continue their journeys.
Theater performances in 1949
A series of theater performances in Lodz in 1949 involving Moshe Lipman and his family.
Cultural Department of the Jewish Committee
A department that organized cultural activities and supported writers and actors.
Jewish Printing Press in Lodz
Lodz had the only Jewish printing press mentioned in the passage.
Dr. Philip Frirman
He led commission staff documenting survivor testimony.
Dr. Kermish
He worked under the commission’s leadership documenting survivor testimony.
Jewish Historical Institute
The institute later assumed the commission’s function.
Moshe Lipman
Moshe Lipman and his family were associated with theater performances.
Moshe Lipman’s family
Moshe Lipman’s family was associated with theater performances.
Jewish artists
Jewish artists performed works from the Yiddish theater repertoire.
We Are Coming
A film about the Medem sanatorium shown publicly in Lodz.
Central Jewish Committee
An organization whose emissaries used an album during an American campaign.
First Hebrew school in Lodz
The first and only Hebrew school in Lodz was not supported by the Committee.