The Polish city of Lodz is to hold a major Holocaust memorial ceremony on Sunday dedicated to the thousands of Jews and Roma persecuted by the Nazis in the ghetto there during World War II. BBC News ...

Between 1940 and 1944, Zylberberg worked on a loom in the Lodz ghetto, the longest-surviving and most profitable of Poland's dozens of ghettos, or "death boxes," as Himmler called them.

Zuckerman's upward mobility is soon cut short by the Nazi takeover of Lodz, where all of the city's Jews are rounded up and forced back into the ghetto for labour, starvation and torture.

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. Only 877 remained ...

Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw An exhibition of art from the Lodz ghetto might sound like a paradox. How could Jews have made art in the hellish conditions of a World War II ghetto?

Tens of thousands died from hunger, disease or as a result of violent crime in the Lodz Ghetto between 1940 and 1944. Nearly 80,000 people were taken by the Nazis to the Chelmo extermination camp ...

Lucy Davies is touched and horrified by a new collection of photographs that Henryk Ross took illicitly in Lodz under the Nazis A couple on a carriage ride in the Lodz Ghetto Credit: Photo: Henryk ...

After the Nazis occupied Poland, they established a ghetto in Lodz and packed it with around 200,000 Jews. Lodz currently has a tiny, yet functioning Jewish community. The Festival of Tranquility ...

A pendant which was apparently made for the head of the Judenrat in the Lodz Ghetto, is set to be auctioned on Tuesday. Chaim Mordechai Rumkowski, the so-called Elder of the Jews, served as the ...