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Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Łódź

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Gertrude Schneider Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AR 3348
Abstract

The centerpiece of this collection is Gertrude Schneider's manuscript describing daily life in the ghetto of Riga, including sections on education, Zionist activity, cultural activity, resistance, and the liquidation of the ghetto. Supplementary research materials include lists of Jews deported from Vienna and transcriptions of the trials of Viktor Bernhard Arajs and Kurt Maywald.

Dates: 1941-1980

Nachman Zonabend Collection

 Collection
Identifier: RG 241
Abstract

The collection documents life inside the Lódz Jewish ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland. It consists predominantly of the records of the Eldest of the Jews in the Lódz ghetto, Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, and of his administration. Included are original correspondence, announcements, circulars, charts, publications, reports, essays, albums and photographs.

Dates: September 1939-August 1944, 1945, 1947