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Old June 29th, 2008, 11:22 PM
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Re: Lodz Ghetto Photos

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Family members say goodbye to a child through a fence at the ghetto's central prison where children, the sick, and the elderly were held before deportation to Chelmno during the "Gehsperre" action. Lodz, Poland, September 1942.


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Jewish and German police guard the ghetto entrance.


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Jewish telephone operators in Lodz ghetto


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A young girl assists in a ghetto paper factory
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Old June 29th, 2008, 11:27 PM
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Jewish Council leader Chaim Rumkowski speaking to Jewish ghetto police.


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Rumkowski delivering a speech.


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Emaciated ghetto child


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Soviet liberation of Łódź, after the liquidation of the ghetto.
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Hey Jim,

A few years back I visited Lodz. (Pronounced "Woodge")There was only a small portion of the wall extant that surrounded the Ghetto. Most signs of it were removed during the communist era. There was a small plaque on the wall commemorating the ghetto.

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