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Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, who had run a Jewish orphanage before the war, was appointed 'Elder of the Jews' by the Nazis in 1939. He turned the ghetto into a hive of industry in the vain hope of securing the survival of most of its inhabitants by making them economically too valuable to the German war effort to be murdered. To achieve this aim, he agreed to the introduction and enforcement of ...

One document, titled "Beschäftigungs-karte" (Employment Card) issued to a woman with the last name of Galicka (née Wyzner), first name illegible, by the Arbeitsamt Litzmannstadt (Employment Office, Łódź, Poland), in March 1942, at which time the bearer of the card was declared to be unemployed. Last, stamp on document is 25 August 1942.

1942 map of Litzmannstadt (Łódź), Poland with an alphabetical street directory. The city had been occupied and annexed by Nazi Germany one week after the September 1, 1939, invasion. The Germans renamed the city Litzmannstadt, after the General Karl Litzmann, who had conquered the city during World War I. Łódź had the second largest Jewish population in Poland and, in February 1940, they were relocated ...

Under the Third Reich, Nazi Germany undertook an unprecedented effort to refashion the city of Lodz. Home to prewar Poland's second most populous Jewish community, this was to become a German city of enchantment--a modern, clean, and orderly showcase of urban planning and the arts. Central to the undertaking, however, was a crime of unparalleled dimension: the ghettoization, exploitation, and ultimate ...

Contains a testimony, typescript, 4 pages, likely created for restitution case in 1956, when author (Weintraub) lived in Norfolk, VA. Composed under oath and notarized, account describes Weintraub's experiences in Łódź ghetto during occupation.

Quick pan of German officials inside building, meeting. EXT, Nazi elite (some with wives) on steps in uniforms, waving. Speech in field. 01:07:55 "AGFA 1940" Nazis speaking to large crowd, marching band. LS Polish landscape. HAS, inspecting soldiers, crowd, speaking. 01:10:08 "AGFA 1940" Soldiers marching, parades, demonstrations, band, gathered to hear speech, uniforms with swastikas, cavalry unit ...

Three posters from Occupied France; dated 1941; French. Newspaper from Łódź Ghetto; dated March 28, 1941; in Hebrew or Yiddish.

Given to Mania Sendziszew in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by dying, unknown Jewish woman whom Mania was caring for, immeadiately following Liberation. Ring originally made and given to unknown woman in Łódź ghetto by woman's fiancee.

O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation from the Lodz Ghetto
 
 The documentation in this Collection survived due to the initiative of Nachman Zonabend who was in a group of Jewish inmates brought to the Lodz Ghetto to clear away the rubble during the war. Zonabend stole into the building where the Ghetto Archive was kept, rescued the documentation at the risk of his life, and hid it until ...

The drawing was created in the Łódź Ghetto.