O.34 - Zonabend Collection: Documentation From the Lodz Ghetto

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 end of the war. The documentation is invaluable for the history of the Lodz Ghetto. The collection, from 1939-1945, includes Judenrat posters, circulars issued by the Jewish Community offices in the ghetto and Mordechaj Chaim Rumkowski, the Judenrat Chairman, editions of the ghetto newspaper, "Geto Zeitung", reports and articles by the ghetto archive workers, articles written in 1942 by Jozef Zelkowicz regarding the ghetto factories ["'resorts"] and excerpts from the chronicles of the Lodz Ghetto. Nachman Zonabend's introduction to the Collection Catalogue published by Yad Vashem in 1992 is attached to the Multimedia tab.