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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
TítuloAttempts to take action in a coerced community: petitions to the Jewish Council in the Lodz ghetto during World War II
Autor
Call number940.5318/0585
Número del objeto11388e
Lugar de publicaciónNew York, New York, United States
EditorialBerghahn Books
Año de publicación
2020
Paginaciónpp114-137
MaterialArticle
NotesArticle from the book 'Resisting persecution : Jews and their petitions during the Holocaust' pp114-137
Descripción
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