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Lodz Jews walk through a courtyard filled with debris a short time before the sealing of the ghetto.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 06218
Lodz Jews walk through a courtyard filled with debris a short time before the sealing of the ghetto. Jews in Lodz were ordered to move into the ghetto on February 8, 1940, and the ghetto was sealed on April 30, 1940. The ghetto was established in the poorest and most neglected part of town - Baluty and The Old Town (Stare Miasto).

Lodz Jews walk through a courtyard filled with debris a short time before the sealing of the ghetto.

Jews in Lodz were ordered to move into the ghetto on February 8, 1940, and the ghetto was sealed on April 30, 1940. The ghetto was established in the poorest and most neglected part of town - Baluty and The Old Town (Stare Miasto).

Date
March 1940
Locale
Lodz, [Lodz] Poland
Variant Locale
Litzmannstadt
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- LODZ (Poland) -- Daily Life/Street Scenes: -- Street Scenes/Views
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Raphael Aronson

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Raphael Aronson
Source Record ID: Hauptarchiv der NSDAP stamp
Second Record ID: Collections: 2005.68
 
Record last modified: 2004-06-03 00:00:00
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