Table of Contents

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

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The first English translation of Isaiah Trunk's monumental study of Lodz Ghetto

About the Author

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.

Reviews

"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 Times