
Lodz Ghetto
A History
Isaiah Trunk(Author)
Indiana University Press
Published on 21. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
560 pages
978-0-253-21993-0 (ISBN)
Description
In his comprehensive examination of the Lodz Ghetto, originally published in Yiddish in 1962, historian Isaiah Trunk sought to describe and explain the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in the first major ghetto imposed by the Germans after they invaded Poland in 1939. Lodz had been home to nearly a quarter million Jews. When the Soviet military arrived in January 1945, they found 877 living Jews and the remains of a vast industrial enterprise that had employed masses of enslaved Jewish laborers. Based on an exhaustive study of primary sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish, German, and Russian, Isaiah Trunk, a former resident of Lodz, reconstructs the organization of the ghetto and discusses its provisioning; forced labor; diseases and mortality; crime and deportations; living conditions; political, social, and cultural life; and resistance. Included are translations of the 141 documents that Trunk reproduced in his volume.
Reviews / Votes
"A monumental work."-Financial Times"Trunk's essential volume provides invaluable material for yet more objective 'appreciations' of the terrible plight of the Jewish leaderships and inhabitants in the 'ghettos for Jews' set up by the Nazi authorities in the East. Vol. 89, no. 1, January 2011"-Slavonic and East European Review
"This translation . . . makes available an invaluable resource for English-language readers. . . . The book is handsomely produced and, in addition to 141 original documents (in translation), an extraordinarily detailed index, and period photographs, contains informative essays by translator-editor Shapiro and two renowned Holocaust scholars, the late Joseph Kermish and Israel Gutman. An indispensable tool for Holocaust research. . . . Essential."-Choice
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
41 b&w photos, 13 figures, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 253 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
1089 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-21993-0 (9780253219930)
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Persons
Isaiah Trunk (1905-1982) was Senior Research Associate and Chief Archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He is author of Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation.
Robert Moses Shapiro is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is editor of Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts.
Robert Moses Shapiro is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is editor of Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts.
Content
Contents
List of Major Tables, Charts, and Maps
List of Abbreviations
Translator-Editor's IntroductionRobert Moses Shapiro
Isaiah TrunkJoseph Kermish
Introduction: The Distinctiveness of the Lodz GhettoIsrael Gutman
ForewordJacob Robinson
Author's PrefaceIsaiah Trunk
I. Establishment of the Ghetto
Documents 1-23
II. Organization of the Ghetto
Documents 26-64
III. Provisioning
Documents 65-83
IV. Forced Labor
Documents 84-95
V. Diseases and Mortality
VI. Persecutions, Murder, and Deportations
Documents 96-112
VII. Internal Conditions
Documents 113-141
VIII. The Problem of Resistance
IX. Conclusions and Summations
Documents Arranged by Chapter
Street Names in Lodz Ghetto
Bibliography
Indexes
Names of German Officials and Business Firms
Places
Subjects
List of Major Tables, Charts, and Maps
List of Abbreviations
Translator-Editor's IntroductionRobert Moses Shapiro
Isaiah TrunkJoseph Kermish
Introduction: The Distinctiveness of the Lodz GhettoIsrael Gutman
ForewordJacob Robinson
Author's PrefaceIsaiah Trunk
I. Establishment of the Ghetto
Documents 1-23
II. Organization of the Ghetto
Documents 26-64
III. Provisioning
Documents 65-83
IV. Forced Labor
Documents 84-95
V. Diseases and Mortality
VI. Persecutions, Murder, and Deportations
Documents 96-112
VII. Internal Conditions
Documents 113-141
VIII. The Problem of Resistance
IX. Conclusions and Summations
Documents Arranged by Chapter
Street Names in Lodz Ghetto
Bibliography
Indexes
Names of German Officials and Business Firms
Places
Subjects