In his comprehensive examination of the Lodz Ghetto, originally
published in Yiddish in 1962, historian Isaiah Trunk sought to
describe and explain the tragedy that befell the Jews imprisoned in
the first major ghetto imposed by the Germans after they invaded
Poland in 1939. Lodz had been home to nearly a quarter million
Jews. When the Soviet military arrived in January 1945, they found
877 living Jews and the remains of a vast industrial enterprise
that had employed masses of enslaved Jewish laborers. Based on an
exhaustive study of primary sources in Yiddish, Hebrew, Polish,
German, and Russian, Isaiah Trunk, a former resident of Lodz,
reconstructs the organization of the ghetto and discusses its
provisioning; forced labor; diseases and mortality; crime and
deportations; living conditions; political, social, and cultural
life; and resistance. Included are translations of the 141
documents that Trunk reproduced in his volume."
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