The Lodz ghetto was the second largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, with some 230,000 residents at the time of its establishment, to whom in 1941 the Nazis added about 20,000 Jewish Czech refugees. After their invasion of Poland, the Nazis ringed the ghetto with barbed wire and armed guards, and appointed a Jewish leader, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, the so-called Chair (...)
October 21, 2011
Books
Wasn’t It Bad Enough?
The Emperor of LiesSteve Sem-Sandberg Farrar, Straus & Grioux, $30, 664 pp.
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