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German troops occupied Lodz one week after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. In early 1940, the Germans established a ghetto in a small area in the northeast section of the city.
- The Lodz Ghetto
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- The Lodz Ghetto
View an animated map of key events in the history of the Lodz ghetto in occupied Poland, from establishment by the Germans in 1940 until destruction in 1944.
- About The Ghetto
- Lodz-Names: List of The Ghetto Inhabitants, 1940-1944
- Examples of Using This Database
- Additional Information and Sources
- Availability of The Published Volumes
- Acknowledgements
Prior to World War II, one-third of the 665,000 inhabitants of thecity of Łódź were Jewish. On September 8, 1939, thecity was aptured by the Germans and renamed "Litzmannstadt". In February 1940, a ghetto was created and, in April, was sealed offwith wooden fences and barbed wire. Transports arrived from many other towns elsewhere in Poland,and fro...
Origins
Population registry books were kept by the Judenrat ofthe Łódź ghetto from the time of establishment of theŁódź Ghetto in February, 1940 to just prior to itsliquidation in August, 1944. Records were maintained by apartment address, and were updatedon a continuing basis. In addition to the names of the residents in an apartment,these records sometimes included the former addresses of theinhabitants, dates of birth, occupation, and date of deportationor death of the individual. In August 1944,...
Format of the Books
Maintained by the statistical department of the Judenrat(the ghetto's Jewish administration), the records were originallyorganized by ghetto address. Before the list was published,the data were computerized and reorganized by surname and given name,in alphabetical order. The information in the book is organizedalphabetically by surname, then by given name. In addition tocolumns for surname and given name, there are column headers for“Sex”, “Birth Date”, “Occupation”, “Ghetto Address” and “Not...
Format of the Database
In compiling the online database, information was reorganized for clarity,and separated into additional data fields to allow greater searchability. Addresses for an individual entry were each placed into a separate field. Each record consists of nine fields, with the following information: 1. Surname, in alphabetical order 2. Maiden name (occasionally) 3. Given name 4. Sex 5. Date of birth 6. Occupation (usually in German, also in Polish) 7. Ghetto address 8. Apartment number 9. Notes: This s...
Example One:
Below is a copy of sample entries from the book for the family “Rublach”. Fourteen entries show up, but a comparison of the data fields show thatsome individuals may have multiple entries. The most likely explanationis that entries were made at each apartment for an individual and the datawas not consolidated there are sometimes slight variations in information,so that it cannot be shown conclusively that two entries are definitely forthe same individual. The following examples illustrate pos...
Example Two:
Another example of how to use this database to recreate family units maybe seen in the table of the Talman family below. At first glance, it maybe difficult to determine who is related to whom. However, by excerptingsurnames from the database and reorganizing the data back to its original format,by ghetto address, family units might emerge. For example: By further grouping all eleven individuals with the surname TALMAN byghetto address one may reasonably assume there were three distinct famil...
A copy of the original ghetto list is maintained in the office of theco-publisher of the book: Organization of Former Residents of Lodz inIsrael (OFRLI), 158 Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv 63461, Israel. The published five volumes of "Lodz-Names: List of the Ghetto Inhabitants,1940-1944" are available in additional libraries or in the possession oforga...
Contributors:
Shirley Rotbein Flaum, Roni Seibel Liebowitz, Michael J. Meshenberg,Alex Avraham, Warren Blatt and Debra Kay compiled this introductory text.
Other Acknowledgements:
We gratefully acknowledge the generosity of the Organization of Former Residentsof Lodz in Israel (Tel Aviv); and Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs and HeroesRemembrance Authority (Jerusalem) for making this remarkable database availableto JewishGen. And finally, thanks to JewishGen Inc. for providing the website and databaseexpertise to make this database accessible. Special thanks to Susan King,Warren Blatt and Michael Tobias for their continued contributions to Jewishgenealogy. December 2016
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Oct 16, 2021 · Inside the Nazi-controlled ghetto of Lodz, 1940-1944. A man walking in winter in the ruins of the synagogue on Wolborska street (destroyed by Germans in 1939). 1940. The Lodz ghetto became the second largest ghetto created by the Nazis after their invasion of Poland – the largest was the Warsaw Ghetto. The ghetto was only originally intended ...
The Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto (after the Nazi German name for Łódź) was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto.
Learn about Lodz Map and Timeline. Lodz, Poland, was a flourishing industrial city in the mid-1800s with a successful textile sector and a mixture of Polish, German, Czech and Jewish inhabitants. Before World War II, a third of the population of 672,000 was Jewish.
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