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#lodz-1: Jews transporting their belongings to the ghetto.	#lodz-2 : Lodz, Poland, The body of an elderly man killed during a deportation (No. 48).	#lodz-3: Overhead view of a main street in the city and the entrance to the ghetto.

#lodz-4: Lodz, 27/07/1942, The funeral of Moshe Yaakobson in the ghetto.	#lodz-5: Lodz, Poland, Ruins in the ghetto.	#lodz-6: Lodz, Jews being deported from the ghetto.

#lodz-7: Jews from the privileged class.	#lodz-8:	#lodz-9:

#lodz-10:	#lodz-11: Jewish theater actors in Lodz, in a performance in 1938	#lodz-12: The deportation of Jews from the Lodz ghetto. The deportees are standing along the length of railrod tracks. A Jewish ghetto policeman named Smietana, wearing an armband and a yellow badge, accompanies the group. Some of the deportees have a tag attached to the lapel of their clothing, indicating the number of the transport.

#lodz-13: Traveling in Rumkowski's carriage in the Lodz ghetto.	#lodz-14: A party in Lodz for actors from the "Habimah" theater of Tel Aviv, who were visiting in the city. Photographed in 1938	#lodz-15: The photographer Mendel Grosman presenting an album of the Lodz ghetto to senior officials of the ghetto Judenrat Two of them are Jewish ghetto policemen wearing armbands. Grosman is standing fourth from the right.

#lodz-16: A party in Lodz before the war.	#lodz-17: Lodz, Poland, four young Jewish women, 1927.	#lodz-18: Lodz, Poland, Jews at the entrance to the ghetto during the war.

#lodz-19: Lodz Ghetto musicians	#lodz-20: The photographer Mendel Grosman (on the horse) with actors from the play, "Dos Wunder Pferdel" (Yiddish: the Little Wonder - Horse") in the Lodz ghetto.	#lodz-21: A collection of photographs from the Lodz Ghetto photographed by ghetto photographer Mendel Grossman and his assistant Aryeh Ben Menachem.

#lodz-22: Mendel Grosman feeding his nephew, Jakow (Jankusz) Freitag, in the Lodz ghetto.	#lodz-23: Employees of the Department of Kitchens in the Lodz ghetto, waiting to be photographed prior to the issuing of their work permits. In the photo: Alter Schildelkauf (last row, fifth from the left), Mendel Grosman (row nearest the camera, second from the left). Grossman has a yellow badge.	#lodz-24: Lodz, Poland, A teacher with children.

#lodz-25: Lodz, Poland, Two women picking fruit from a tree, before the war.	#lodz-26: Morawski, a Jewish theater actor in Lodz, in a performance in 1938.	#lodz-27: Lodz, Poland of Yoss Horowicz in ( Polish Army) uniform, 10/10/1931

#lodz-28: Lodz, Poland, a photograph of Aodishka Horowitz and her daughter before 1939.	#lodz-29: Aodishka Horowitz, her husband and their daughter Rita in Lodz, before the war.	#lodz-30: Lodz, Poland, Mendel Grossman in his study, Prewar.

#lodz-31: The Lodz ghetto photographer, Mendel Grosman, with Aharon Jakobson, a founder of the Hazit Dor Bnei Midbar	#lodz-32: A scene from the play, "Uriel da Costa," staged by the Jewish theater of Lodz. Photographed on May 23, 1938.	#lodz-33: Mendel Grosman on the ruins of the synagogue on Wolborska Street in the Lodz ghetto

#lodz-34: Lodz, Poland, Class photograph of students and their teachers, before the war	#lodz-35: Prewar Lodz.	#lodz-36: A group of young Jewish women in prewar Lodz.

#lodz-37:	#lodz-38:	#lodz-39: In the Lodz ghetto.

#lodz-40:	#lodz-41: The Lodz Ghetto Jewish Council.	#lodz-42: The Bridge on Kirchenplatz Connecting Two Parts of the Lodz Ghetto.

#lodz-43: Jews at forced labor, transporting excrement down a ghetto street. Lodz ghetto, Poland, wartime.	#lodz-44: Lodz, Poland, A group of Jewish writers and Journalists, 1938. sitting from right to left: Yitzhak Goldkorn, M. Smoloj, Moshe Broderson, Yisrael Trank. Standing from right to left: B. Shayevitch, A. Yoachimovitch, father of the submitter the survivor Wolf Hirsch Iwan	#lodz-45: Lodz, Poland, A group photograph of the ghetto theater players. Belongs to collection:Yad Vashem Photo Archive

#lodz-46: Lodz 1946 , children who survived. From right to left: Hadassah Sat (Danusia Warszawska) , Aviva Ostra, Bronia Sosnowska-Nagu	#lodz-47: The photographer Mendel Grossman with his young nephew Yaacov Freitag in the Lodz ghetto, Poland.	#lodz-48: October 1941 Jews at prayer during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot (The Feast of the Tabernacles), in the Lodz Ghetto.

#lodz-49:	#lodz-50: Jacob Graiman and wife, September 26, 1936. The inscription : “May you be inscribed for a good year. Our heartfelt wishes for success in honor of the New Year, Jacob Graiman and his wife. Lodz, the 10th of Tishrei 5697”. Jacob and his wife perished during the Holocaust.	#lodz-51: Mania Weinberg nee Shreiber was born in Krakow, Poland.. She was married to Yehiel. Prior to WWII she lived in Lodz,She perished in the Holocaust.

#lodz-52: The Bronstein/ Wienberg family of Lodz perished in the holocaust.	#lodz-53: Hana Weinberg was born in Lodz, Poland in 1930 to Meir and Mania nee Shreiber. She perished in the holocaust.	#lodz-54: Pola Landaunee Weinberg perished in the Holocaust.

#lodz-55: Yehiel Weinberg was born in Poland to Abish and Pesa. He was a merchant and married to Mania. They perished in Lodz.	#lodz-56:	#lodz-57:

#lodz-58: Zelig Zundiner was born in Lodz, Poland in 1919 to Shlomo and Rivka. He was a yeshiva student. Prior to WWII he lived in Lodz, Poland. During the war he was in Lodz, Poland. Zelig was murdered in the Shoah on the last day before liberation. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his brother, a Shoah survivor.	#lodz-59: Shlomo Zundiner was born in Shereshov, Poland in 1890 to Mordekhai and Bila. He was a merchant. Prior to WWII he lived in Lodz, Poland. Shlomo was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by his son.	#lodz-60: Liba Zundiner nee Yablonski was born in Lodz, Poland in 1886 to Zelig and Henia. She was a housewife. Prior to WWII she lived in Lodz, Poland. Liba was murdered in the Shoah. This information is based on a Page of Testimony (displayed on left) submitted by her son, a Shoah survivor.

#lodz-61:	#lodz-62: The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin got these photos about ten years ago from IPN in Poland, but there was no date attached to the file. This iconic photograph of uniformed Germans publicly humiliating a Jew was taken in Warta near ?ód? - the Jewish man has been identified as Hersz Laskowski, son of the rabbi Eliasz Laskowski. In 1942, father and son were hanged together. Please contact Adam Kerpel-Fronius if you can help with dating the picture! ( between 1939- 1942)	#lodz-63: The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin got these photos about ten years ago from IPN in Poland, but there was no date attached to the file. This iconic photograph of uniformed Germans publicly humiliating a Jew was taken in Warta near ?ód? - the Jewish man has been identified as Hersz Laskowski, son of the rabbi Eliasz Laskowski. In 1942, father and son were hanged together. Please contact Adam Kerpel-Fronius if you can help with dating the picture! ( between 1939- 1942)

#lodz-64: To my sister Tikvah, I survived. Write me.	#lodz-65: Pre Passover cleaning in Lodz during the first world war	#lodz-66: Wanda Rein Lodz 1939

#lodz-67: Stella Rein (wearing scarf), teacher and principal of the Rumkowski high school in the Lodz ghetto, with her pupils in Marysin (the agricultural area of the ghetto), 1941-1942. Identified in the photograph: Felitzya Ferster. In late August 1944, Stella Rein was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she was murdered. Felitzya perished at age 14.	#lodz-68: Photographs from the children’s home in the Lodz ghetto. Bottom center: Stella Rein. A page from a 90-page album that forms part of a series of albums found on the site of the ghetto after the liberation of Lodz. The albums were prepared by the Judenrat’s Statistics Department. Yad Vashem Photo Archives FA 75/71	#lodz-69: Photographs from the children’s home in the Lodz ghetto.

#lodz-70: Lodz Ghetto 1942. All Jewish children under the age of 10 were taken to be killed.	#lodz-71: My father, Meir Blecher,1951, Lodz.	#lodz-72: Poland, Lodz,1951. My father, Meir Blecher,second from right. I know that people in photograph from Oshmana.. Perhaps, someone can identify them.

#lodz-73: Jewish Records Indexing - Poland has provided links to this new resource for Lodz, Poland researchers. The Polish State Archives have digitized these cards and placed some of them online this month. Lodz Registration Cards 1916-1921 \| Jewish Records Indexing - Poland In Congress Poland and Galicia, each community was required to maintain an ongoing census-like record of all legal residents of the community. The information was recorded in huge volumes called Ksi?gi Ludno?ci [Books of Residents]. Individual Registration Cards were first filled out, and the inform… JRI-POLAND.ORG http://jri-poland.org/psa/lodz-registration-card-scans.htm	#lodz-74:	#lodz-75: From: A. Ben-Ami <dufs44@bezeqint.net> Subject: Weksler - Radio in Lodz Ghetto To: <egl.comments@gmail.com> Shalom: This picture shows a man using a commercially built electronic test instrument for radio equipment. The caption says it is assumed to be a picture of Szaga Weksler listening to radio. I think that it is a picture of Wiktor Rundbaken, who was a radio technician, testing a radio rather than Szaga Weksler listening to radio. Thank you Aryeh Ben-Ami 4Z5DF

#lodz-76: Niuta Tajtelbaum ("Wanda"), Jewish Communist and member of the Polish Armia Ludowa underground in Warsaw (Warszawa). Her name in the underground was Wanda Witwicka. : Niuta Tajtelbaum was a native of Lodz born in 1917. During the Great Aktion (mass deportations) of the summer of 1942, she left the ghetto and joined the partisans to fight the Germans, then returned to the ghetto. She was among the Armia Ludowa Polish Communist underground's "Spetzgruppe" special unit, carrying out missions such as the PKO bank robbery and placing a bomb in a cinema and the "Kammerlicht Spiel" Theater at 8 Marszalkowska Street on January 17, 1943. The Germans set a price on her head of 150,000 zloty. During the Warsaw ghetto uprising in April 1943, she was part of a group that attacked a German artillery unit that was shelling the ghetto. She was caught on July 19, 1943, tortured and killed. In April 1945, Niuta Tajtelbaum was posthumously awarded the Gruenwald Cross, Third Class, by the Polish army High Command. See: 1) Gutman, Yisrael, "The Jews of Warsaw, 1939 - 1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt", Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982. 2) Her page on "The Partisans Site" website of the Ghetto FIghters' House (www.partisans.org.il) and Holdings Registry file No. 34260 in the GFH Archives. Close	#lodz-77: Gitler family	#lodz-78: Bela Elinger nee Kliger(1907- 2000).