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Author Horwitz, Gordon J

Title Ghettostadt : Łódź and the making of a Nazi city / Gordon J. Horwitz
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (395 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Autumn 1939: conquest -- A city without Jews -- The enclosure -- The ghetto will endure -- The ghetto and the city of the future -- Banishment -- Departure, worry, and disappearance -- "Give me your children" -- Who shall live and who shall die? -- Numbered are the days
Summary Under the Third Reich, Nazi Germany undertook an unprecedented effort to refashion the city of Lodz. Home to prewar Poland's second most populous Jewish community, this was to become a German city of enchantment--a modern, clean, and orderly showcase of urban planning and the arts. Central to the undertaking, however, was a crime of unparalleled dimension: the ghettoization, exploitation, and ultimate annihilation of the city's entire Jewish population. This book is an examination of the Jewish ghetto's place in the Nazi worldview. Exploring ghetto life in its broadest context, it maneuvers between the perspectives and actions of Lodz's beleaguered Jewish community, the Germans who oversaw and administered the ghetto's affairs, and the "ordinary" inhabitants of the once Polish city, showing how the Nazis exploited Jewish institutional traditions, social divisions, faith in rationality, and hope for survival to achieve their wider goal of Jewish elimination.--From publisher description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Łódź -- History
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Łódź
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Eastern.
Ethnic relations
Jews -- Persecutions
Judenverfolgung
Getto
Weltkrieg II -- Łódź.
Ghetto.
Judenverfolgung.
Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Łódź.
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Łódź.
SUBJECT Łódź (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
Subject Poland -- Łódź
Łódź
Łódź -- Ghetto.
Łódź -- Geschichte 1933-1945.
Łódź.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2007050934
ISBN 9780674038790
0674038797