Lodz Ghetto
A History
Published on 17. July 2006
Book
Hardback
560 pages
978-0-253-34755-8 (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
"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 "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." -Slavonic and East European Review, Vol. 89, no. 1, January 2011 "A monumental work." -Financial TimesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
41 b&w photos, 13 figures, 1 map
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
1162 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-34755-8 (9780253347558)
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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.
Content
Contents<\> List of Major Tables, Charts, and Maps List of Abbreviations Translator-Editor's Introduction Robert Moses Shapiro Isaiah Trunk Joseph Kermish Introduction: The Distinctiveness of the Lodz Ghetto Israel Gutman Foreword Jacob Robinson Author's Preface Isaiah Trunk I. Establishment of the Ghetto Documents 123 II. Organization of the Ghetto Documents 2664 III. Provisioning Documents 6583 IV. Forced Labor Documents 8495 V. Diseases and Mortality VI. Persecutions, Murder, and Deportations Documents 96112 VII. Internal Conditions Documents 113141 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