Ghetto kingdom:tales of the Lodz ghetto

Isaiah Spiegel was an inmate of the Lodz Ghetto from its inception in 1940 until its liquidation in 1944. While there, he wrote short stories depicting Jewish life in the ghetto and managed to hide them before he was deported to Auschwitz. After being freed, he returned to Lodz to retrieve and publish his stories.
​The stories examine the relationship between inmates and their families, their friends, their Christian former neighbours, the German soldiers, and, ultimately, the world of hopelessness and desperation that surrounded them.