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Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement No. 233 regarding the establishment of a court to dispense quick justice, 15 March 1941

Announcements to the population issued by Rumkowski in the Lodz Ghetto: Announcement No. 233 regarding the establishment of a court to dispense quick justice, 15 March 1941 Announcement No. 233, signed by Mordechaj Rumkowski, announcing the establishment of a court to dispense quick justice, starting 16 March 1941; the court is located at Francyskanska Street; the court deliberations will be carried out without the presence of a defense attorney or a prosecuting attorney.

File Number : 242

Language : Polish, German, Yiddish

Speech delivered by Hans Biebow before clerks and managers of factories in the Lodz Ghetto, 07 December 1943

Speech delivered by Hans Biebow before clerks and managers of factories in the Lodz Ghetto, 07 December 1943 Approximately 400 people were present at the speech, as well as Kripo personnel. In the speech, the message was transmitted that work, discipline and obedience are the only policy for ghetto residents; praises for Rumkowski; comparison to Theresienstadt where the forced labor does not achieve the goals due to the weakness of the Jewish administration; honorable mention of Jakubowicz, Szwarszowski, Chimowicz and Terkeltaub, the firefighting service headed by Kaufmann, the Sonderabteilung (Special...

File Number : 286

Type of Material : Official Documentation, Documentation

Language : German

Testimony of Ester (Lipszyc) Eidlitz Bernstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1908, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Dresden and Pirna

Testimony

Testimony of Ester (Lipszyc) Eidlitz Bernstein, born in Lodz, Poland, 1908, regarding her experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Stutthof, Auschwitz, Dresden and Pirna Life in the Lodz Ghetto; establishment and activities of the Residence Court, with her husband's participation, spring 1940; expansion of the composition of the judges and establishment of a general court instead of the housing court; demand made by the Germans of the judges that they impose the death penalty, spring 1941; refusal of the Germans' demand by her husband and three other judges; removal from the bench; blacklisting of the ousted judges;...

File Number : 3582

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Protocol from a legal hearing that took place in the Lodz Ghetto, 03 July 1941, regarding the inheritance of Szmul-Chaim and Frajda Marmer and the verdict handed down, 07 July 1941

Protocol from a legal hearing that took place in the Lodz Ghetto, 03 July 1941, regarding the inheritance of Szmul-Chaim and Frajda Marmer and the verdict handed down, 07 July 1941 Names of the claimants present at the trial: Berek Fryszer and Chaja-Sura Bok; names of the judges: Bytenski, Jakobson and Binsztok; protocol of the hearing recorded by H. Retter.

File Number : 1218

Type of Material : Official Documentation

Language : German