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On February 8, 1940, German orders decreed the establishment of the Lódz ghetto, and on April 30, 1940, the ghetto was sealed. The chairman of the ghetto's Judenrat was Mordecai Chaim Rumkowski. The Lódz ghetto served as an important industrial center in occupied Poland. One of the first ghettos created, Lódz was also the one that existed the longest. By August 1942, there were about 100 factories in the ghetto. The largest specialized in textile production, notably uniforms for the German army. In 1941 and 1942 about 40,000 Jews were deported to the Lódz ghetto from Germany, Austria, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, Luxembourg, and smaller towns in the Lódz province. This dramatically increased the ghetto population. German authorities established a killing facility nearby and between January and September 1942, deportations to the Kulmhof (Chelmno) death camp totaled over 116,000 people. Deportations in early September 1942 resulted in the loss of 15,000 people, many of them children and the elderly. By spring of 1943, when most of the other ghettos in Poland and Eastern Europe had been destroyed or were in the process of destruction, the Lódz ghetto still held 70,000 people. In June 1944 massive deportations to Auschwitz and other concentration and death camps ensued. The ghetto was emptied of all but a few of its inhabitants. Soviet forces liberated Lódz on January 19, 1945. (en-US)

Fonte

Pilichowski, Czeslaw. Obozy hitlerowskie na ziemiach polskich 1939-1945: Informator encyklopedyczny = Nazi Camps in Poland 1939-1945: Dictionary and Encyclopedia. Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe Warszawa, 1979. (4 fold maps). p. 293-295

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• Lódz (Polonia : Voivodship)