Lodz Ghetto Sources

LODZ GHETTO SOURCES
(refer to “Lodz Ghetto” blog at http://wp.me/pDvEo-6)

**Timeline Footnote
[1] Atlas of the Holocaust by Martin Gilbert (©1982 William Morrow & Co. Inc., New York, Map 101) – footnote to Timeline entry 16 Jan 1942

**Post Footnotes
[1] The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and The Final Solution by Richard Breitman (©1991 Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York, ISBN 0394568419) p. 162.

[2] Process confirmed by the Central Commission for Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, “GERMAN CRIMES IN POLAND (Warsaw, 1946, 1947)”:

The railway trains which used to bring the Jews from Lodz consisted as a rule of 20-22 wagons. At Kolo the transportees, usually about 1000 at one time, were reloaded and sent by the branch line to Powiercic, the rail-head (note 2), whence their baggage was dispatched straight to Chelmno, while they themselves were taken under an escort of 6 to 8 gendarmes to the neighbouring village of Zawadki, and left for the night in a large mill building.

[3] The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944 by Lucjan Dobroszycki (© 1984 Yale University Press, New Haven, ISBN 0300032080), Part II: 1942.

[4] Central Commission (see 2, above)

**Other Sources
http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/Lodz/lodzghetto.html (©2007 The Holocaust Research Project, “The Lodz Ghetto)

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/lodz.html (©1998 Jewish Virtual Library, “The Lodz Ghetto” by Jennifer Rosenberg)

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=1000507  (©US Holocaust Memorial Museum, “Holocaust Encyclopedia, updated May 4, 2009)

http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Camps/ChelmnoEng.html (©1997-2006 The Forgotten Camps – Vincent Châtel & Chuck Ferree)

The Architect of Genocide: Himmler and The Final Solution by Richard Breitman (©1991 Alfred A. Knopf Inc., New York, ISBN 0394568419)

Lodz Ghetto, PBS Home Video (©1989 The Jewish Heritage Project)

The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941-1944 by Lucjan Dobroszycki (© 1984 Yale University Press, New Haven, ISBN 0300032080)

Central Commission for Investigation of German Crimes in Poland, “GERMAN CRIMES IN POLAND (Warsaw, 1946, 1947)”

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