Łódź Ghetto : a history / Isaiah Trunk ; translated and edited by Robert Moses Shapiro ; introduced by Israel Gutman.

"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 n...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Lodzsher geṭo. English
Main Author: Trunk, Isaiah
Corporate Author: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Other Authors: Shapiro, Robert Moses (Translator, Editor)
Gutman, Israel (Writer of introduction)
Robinson, Jacob (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
Yiddish
Language and/or Writing System:
Translated from the Yiddish.
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, [2006], ©2006.
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Physical Description:lvii, 493 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Isaiah Trunk / Joseph Kermish
  • Introduction : The distinctiveness of the Łódź Ghetto / Israel Gutman
  • Foreword / Jacob Robinson
  • Establishment of the Ghetto
  • Organization of the Ghetto
  • Provisioning
  • Forced labor
  • Diseases and mortality
  • Persecutions, murder, and deportations
  • Internal conditions
  • The problem of resistance
  • Conclusions and summations
  • Documents arranged by chapter
  • Street names in Łódź Ghetto.