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Carpenters’ workshop strike
A strike and clashes with ghetto police occurred among 2,380 workers.
February 1941 ghetto demonstration
About 4,100 people demonstrated against Rumkowski’s administration; arrests followed.
Workers’ strike at Resort
Workers from Resort, at Kurtzstrasse 17, struck at the end of December 1941 and were subsequently detained.
Deportation of strike leaders
Nine strike leaders were deported after the workers’ strike.
Jewish Post begins operations
The Jewish Post began operating after an agreement with a representative of the German post office.
Ghetto postal traffic stopped
Postal traffic stopped before deportations to Chełmno.
Chełmno
Destination of deportations from the ghetto.
Establishment of a Jewish court
Rumkowski ordered the establishment of a Jewish court in the ghetto.
Creation of the expedited court
Rumkowski created an expedited court on 18 March 1941.
Establishment of the Chelmno extermination camp
The Germans established an extermination camp in Chelmno.
First transport to Chelmno
The first transport to Chelmno departed on 16 January 1942 from Radegast station.
Deportations of Western European Jews
Deportations of Jews from Western Europe began on 6 May 1942 and continued until 18 May; the victims were Jews from Western Europe, not Western Europe itself.
Transfers to the Lodz Ghetto
Jews remaining after other ghettos’ liquidations arrived in the Lodz Ghetto.
Deportation to Chelmno
Deported people were taken to Chelmno for killing.
Deportations from Lodz Ghetto
Jews remaining in the ghetto were described after deportations.
Hanging of five Lodz Jews
Five Lodz Jews, including a fifteen-year-old boy, were hanged in the Poznan labor camps.
Killings at Chelmno
A letter reported that people were being killed in Chelmno village.
Planned deportation to Chełmno
Patients, elderly people, incapacitated workers, and children were designated for transport to Chełmno.
Search operation and removal of vulnerable residents
Quarter sections were closed and systematically searched; children and elderly people were taken away.
Hangings of nine Jews in the ghetto
Nine Jews were hanged in the ghetto in June 1943 after being accused of escape.
Ghetto deportations resumed
Deportations from the ghetto resumed on June 22, 1944.
Mass killing at Chełmno
7,176 Jews were killed at Chełmno from June 23 through July 14, 1944.
Ghetto evacuation
The ghetto population was evacuated beginning August 8, 1944.
First transport from Litzmannstadt Ghetto
The first transport was scheduled to depart on 3 August 1944.
Registration for work outside the ghetto
Thousands of young people registered for work outside the ghetto during the first winter.
Closing of the 1940–1941 school year
The ghetto nearly completely concluded the 1940–1941 school year.
Deportation of refugees to the ghetto
Refugees from Germany, Austria, and Czechia were sent to an industrial city and entered the ghetto.
Deportation of ten thousand ghetto inhabitants
Rumkowski announced that ten thousand people would be deported from the ghetto.
Deportation operation, 1949
The operation continued from January into April 1949; over forty thousand people were deported.
Deportation operation, May 1942
About ten thousand ghetto residents were scheduled for deportation by May 12, 1942.
First deportation period
The first deportation period ran from October 1941 until May 1942.
Murder of an approximately 8,000-person group
Approximately 8,000 people, probably entire families, were secretly murdered and disappeared from the ghetto.
Ghetto confinement
A group lived under restricted sanitation and German guard conditions in the ghetto.
Killing of an infant
A German guard killed an infant found hidden inside a small suitcase.
Transport of Polish Jews into the ghetto
Polish Jews from nearby towns were transported into the ghetto after deportations stopped.
Hardest period in the Lodz ghetto
May through September 1942 was described as the ghetto’s hardest period because of severe hunger.