Lodz Ghetto Thesis

Lodz Ghetto The Holocaust killed very many Jews. The Lodz Ghetto is a place where jews and many other races of people lived. The Lodz Ghetto is where some Jews lived during the Holocaust. The lodz ghetto is located in Lodz Poland. The Lodz Ghetto has some cruel living conditions, and very many different kinds of people. , and many photographers captured many images. In the Lodz Ghetto, there were horrendous living situations for the people that were living there. Vashem said “The Jews were only permitted to take a few personal items with them to the ghetto, in the process being stripped of the homes and property that they had left behind” (2). The ghettos were often overcrowded and did not have electrical needs. The ghettos were also very unsanitary. Vashem states “During the Holocaust Jews were stripped of their homes and forced to live in terrible conditions with very little food” (1). The people that lived in the ghetto were underfed and malnourished. The people were also punished severely if they tried to smuggle food in. Many died from starvation, and many were executed for

Shaer states “By the 1930s, Lodz, which sits in the center of Poland, some 80 miles southwest of Warsaw, counted a population of almost 604,000. Some thirty-two percent were Jews, drawn to the city by a market boom in textile manufacturing and trade” (3). Nine percent of the population was German. Many of the people in the ghetto were either Jew of Polish. Many of the prisoners of the Lodz Ghetto got along fairly well. There were over six million Jews that were killed during the Holocaust. Shaer states “Early in 1940, citing - speciously - an outbreak of disease among the Jewish residents of Lodz, Nazi officials began transplanting all 200,000 Jews to a barbed-wire ghetto in the northern district” (4). Many Jews were hurt or killed during this time. There were many different races of people in the Lodz