Born during World War II, ... Ghetto police are pictured with a woman behind barbed wire, in the Lodz Ghetto, 1942. Henryk Ross/© Art Gallery of Ontario/Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ...

The Lodz ghetto was administered by the controversial “Elder of the Jews,” Chaim Rumkowski. (Day-to-day life in the ghettos was typically run by Jews appointed by the Nazis.) ...

At the start of World War II, the Jewish ghetto of Lodz, Poland, had a population of 160,000. By the end of the war, it was 877. One of the few survivors was Henryk Ross, a former photojournalist w… ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Holocaust survivor Morris Glass talked about his life in Poland during World War II and his experiences at the Lodz Ghetto. Holocaust survivor ...

Like any town of 223,000, Lodz ghetto was a complex, hierarchical society. There was the majority - starving - and the "protected class", as residents called them, who were less starving.

Lodz Ghetto, Poland, c.1942-44. This bread card was very important to its holder, Abram Goldberg, because by 1942 only those with employment could obtain ration cards within the Lodz Ghetto and ...

The site where the items were found was near the border of the Lodz Ghetto, according to the report. Around 210,000 Jews passed through the Lodz Ghetto between 1940 and 1944.

DAVID: Lodz has the dubious distinction, if I might call it that, of being the first closed Ghetto in Europe and by fate or destiny, the last one to be dissolved in Europe too.

Our guest today is regarded as one of the greats of contemporary European literature. Steve Sem-Sandberg joins us to talk about his latest novel "The Emperor of Lies", which weaves a richly ...