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Attempts to take action in a coerced community: petitions to the Jewish Council in the Lodz ghetto during World War II

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TitleAttempts to take action in a coerced community: petitions to the Jewish Council in the Lodz ghetto during World War II

Author

Svenja Bethke

Call number940.5318/0585

Object number11388e

Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States

PublisherBerghahn Books

Year of publication

2020

Physical descriptionpp114-137

MaterialArticle

NotesArticle from the book 'Resisting persecution : Jews and their petitions during the Holocaust' pp114-137

Description

The Lodz ghetto which existed from April 1940 until July 1944 was the second largest and longest running ghetto in German-occupied Eastern Europe. It was only in the second half of 1941 that the Nazi leadership decided to systematically murder the European Jews. In the city of Lodz the German city commissioner enforced the establishment of the Jewish Council with Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski as its head. He established a secretariat for petitions and complaints. Jewish people started to write petitions almost immediately and the volume increased after its establishment

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