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Departure from Lodz toward Warsaw
The narrator left Lodz with a small suitcase and traveled toward Warsaw.
Death of Rabbi Yissachar Ber
Rabbi Yissachar Ber died in 1920.
Attendance at a government school
The narrator completed a government school in their town.
Attendance at the gymnasium
The narrator became a student at the gymnasium and observed its language use.
Dr. Natan Ek worked at Yad Vashem
The narrator met Dr. Natan Ek at his work at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
Death of Shmuel Diker
Shmuel Diker died after an incurable illness, according to the narrator.
Death of Shmuel Holenderski
Shmuel Holenderski died in the Bialystok ghetto during the German concentration-camp period in Poland.
Yudkin studied at Yavne Gymnasium
Yudkin attended Yavne Gymnasium in Lodz.
Narrator leaves Lodz
The narrator describes leaving Lodz and traveling by train via Koluszki.
Lodz Jewish Theater Studio members gathered in Bialystok
Members of the Lodz Jewish Theater Studio met in Bialystok with their wives and children.
Theater studio members obtained improved work opportunities
After an examination, the students received better work opportunities and living conditions.
Lessons on Jewish classics at Piramowicza 2
The group received lessons from Yosef Becher at a member's address.
Organization of the first Hebrew theater troupe
The first Hebrew theater troupe was organized in Lodz and later toured Russia.
Closure of the Lodz Jewish Printers Union
Lodz
Establishment of a printing cooperative
A cooperative of owners and workers formed in the closed ghetto in May 1940.
Ghetto printing house established
A Jewish printing house was established in the ghetto after Rumkowski assigned premises.
Deportation to Birkenau
The narrator and fellow printers were sent to Birkenau on 28 August 1944.
Bombardment of Wrocław
Wrocław was bombarded while the prisoners were transferred to another location.
Liberation of the prisoners
The narrator states that they were liberated on 8 May 1949.
Zimmerman’s migration to Australia
Zimmerman came to Australia in 1941 and settled in Sydney.
Piotrkowska Street
A Łódź street where Jewish residents work, trade, and struggle.
Renewed publication of Lodzer Tageblat
The Germans again permitted publication of the Lodzer Tageblat in 1916.
Death of Władysław Polyak
Władysław Polyak died in Sydney in 1906.
German occupation of Lodz
The passage says the Germans occupied Lodz on 8 September; the supplied OCR reads the year as 1929, not 1939.
Formation of the Jewish Council
Rumkowski organized a council after the Germans appointed him Jewish elder.
Arrest of Jewish Council members
The Germans arrested thirteen members of the first Jewish Council on 11 November.
Rabbi Treistman travels to Warsaw
Rabbi Treistman eventually departed for Warsaw after friends raised money to save him.
Establishment of the second Jewish Council
Rumkowski established a second Jewish Council on the Gestapo's orders.
Hanging of eight people
Germans hanged eight people without stated reason on November 9, 1939.
Departure of Łódź Jews
Six thousand Łódź Jews officially departed for the General Government.
Concentration of Łódź Jews
In December 1929, the Hitlerist authorities decided to concentrate all Łódź Jews in an enclosed urban area.
Bałuty
District to which Jewish intellectuals were forced to move.
Jewish relocation into the ghetto
The German plan required 800 Jews daily to move into the ghetto.
Violent nights in Łódź
German violence on several streets caused hundreds of Jewish deaths.
August 1940 ghetto unrest
August 1940 ghetto unrest involving a crowd storming Rumkowski’s seat, a potato seizure, and German police dispersal.
Tailors’ workshop strike
A strike occurred at the tailors’ workshop in September 1940.