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Gettoverwaltung Lodz (Lodz Ghetto Administration), matters regarding the administration of the Pabinice Ghetto, Dambrow labor camp and the Lodz Ghetto, and the confiscation of property of the Jews of Lodz Gettoverwaltung Lodz (Lodz Ghetto Administration): - Administration of the Pabianici Ghetto and the surrounding area (Belegschaft Pabianici), 1942-1943: Requests for "Supplement for Extra Risk" payments to the Sonderkommando personnel; Discovery of places where Jewish property was hidden (Pabianici - 30/06/1942); List of 183 workers in the Dombrow labor camp (undated), and details regarding the...

File Number : JM/1396

Type of Material : Survey Report, Official Documentation

A report dated March 4, 1942 written by Biebow on the food situation in the Lodz ghetto.

File Number : 228

Type of Material : Reports

Language : German

Report of the S. AK. Nord (Schutzpolizei -Abschnittkommandatur Nord - regional German police unit) in Lodz submitted to Hans Biebow regarding absorption of Jews and Gypsies in the Lodz Ghetto, 13 November 1941 Report regarding 20,000 Jews who arrived from Cologne, Berlin, Vienna, Hamburg, Duesseldorf, Frankfurt Am Main and Luxemburg; the report also contains a survey regarding 5,000 Gypsies who arrived in the ghetto without any means.

File Number : 232

Type of Material : Reports

Language : German

Daily reports submitted by the Lodz Ghetto Judenrat Chairman containing a description of events in the ghetto, 01-15 March and 06 July 1944

Daily reports submitted by the Lodz Ghetto Judenrat Chairman containing a description of events in the ghetto, 01-15 March and 06 July 1944 In the reports are reports regarding the number of the residents, the number of forced laborers, the number of deaths and births, new directives, various events, activities of the Jewish police, food supply, black market prices, workshop activities, the state of health of the residents and the sanitation situation.

File Number : 268

Type of Material : Investigation Report, Reports

Language : German

Testimony of Simon Maus, born in Lodz, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto

Testimony

Testimony of Simon Maus, born in Lodz, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto Attends vocational school in Lodz. Entry of the Germans; first orders against Jews; kidnappings to forced labor; employment of Jews in workshops; establishment of ghetto; Judenrat activities; labor as technician in the ghetto electric station; hunger, diseases and deteriorated sanitary conditions; his father's death from starvation in ghetto; deportation of his mother and sister to extermination camps; implementation of sabotage activities by work crew at electric station; actions of head ghetto administrator, Hans...

File Number : 10106

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

Testimony of Malka Mosenson, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto and Ravensbruck, Auschwitz, Muhlhausen and Bergen-Belsen camps

Testimony

Testimony of Malka Mosenson, born in Lodz, Poland, 1922, regarding her experiences in Lodz, the Lodz Ghetto and Ravensbruck, Auschwitz, Muhlhausen and Bergen-Belsen camps Her childhood and family background; life in Konin and her education in Konin; return to Lodz, 1938. German occupation, 06 September 1939; anti-Jewish decrees; establishment of the Lodz Ghetto; ghetto life; functioning of the Judenrat under Rumkowski; in hiding during deportations, 1942; deportation to Auschwitz, 18 August 1944; selection; life in camp C; roll-calls; transfer to Ravensbruck; life in the Gypsy camp for female gypsies;...

File Number : 9868

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Menakhem Kfir, born in Lodz, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Chemnitz and on a death march

Testimony

Testimony of Menakhem Kfir, born in Lodz, 1923, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Chemnitz and on a death march His father's activities on behalf of the community and in Mizrachi; life in Lodz; absorption of Jews deported from Germany, 1938. German occupation and restrictions on the Jews, September 1939; abuse of Jews with beards; burning of the Great Synagogue in Lodz, December 1939; establishment of the Lodz Ghetto, March 1940; his father's position on the Judenrat; life in the ghetto under the leadership of Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski; education; Gypsy camp in the ghetto; labor...

File Number : 9562

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of David Daniel Baran, born in Lodz, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Kaltwasser, Friedland, Schottenwerk and other camps

Testimony

Testimony of David Daniel Baran, born in Lodz, 1919, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Kaltwasser, Friedland, Schottenwerk and other camps Life before the war. Drafted into the Polish Army at Warsaw, September 1939; entry of the Germans; return to Lodz; deportation to the Lodz Ghetto, 1940; labor as a foreman on a farm in Marysin, 1941; fostering refugees; interrogation of his father by the secret police, 1942; ghetto life including help in the smuggle of food and rescue of Jews from deportation; liquidation of the ghetto; deportation of most the family to Auschwitz-Birkenau; transfer to...

File Number : 9499

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Aharon Zolty, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lodz and camps

Testimony

Testimony of Aharon Zolty, born in Lodz, Poland, 1926, regarding his experiences in Lodz and camps German occupation of Lodz, September 1939; establishment of the Lodz Ghetto; labor in a workshop producing fatigue belts for German Army paratroopers; large curfew (Sperre) "Aktion", 1942; selection; Judenrat and Bibov; labor in the Schneider “Resort” workshop producing suits for the German Army; labor in a metal “Resort" workshop; "Aktion" and the liquidation of the ghetto; deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau; selection; Birkenau camp life; forced labor; abuse; attitude of the Polish Kapo toward the Jews; life...

File Number : 9071

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Hebrew

Testimony of Shiye Vengrotzki, born in Lodz, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Dresden and other places

Testimony

Testimony of Shiye Vengrotzki, born in Lodz, Poland, 1902, regarding his experiences in the Lodz Ghetto, Auschwitz, Stutthof, Dresden and other places Outbreak of the war, September 1939; escape to the Soviet side; return to his family in Lodz; life in the Lodz Ghetto including labor as the manager of 5000 workers in the metals department; sabotage by workers in the factory; warnings from Biebov, the German ghetto commander; transfer to Auschwitz with the factory and the workers, 01 September 1944; camp life including selection by Dr. Josef Mengele; rescue of 19 children including his son; transfer to...

File Number : 4210

Type of Material : Testimony

Language : Polish

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