Lodz ghetto

The following pictures are part of the documentation

THE AUSTRIAN VICTIMS OF THE HOLOCAUST

a project of

Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW) Wien

Between October 15 and November 2, 1941, about 5,000 Jewish people from Vienna arrived in Lodz. More than 78 % of them were more than 45 years old, more than 41 % were more than 60 years old and almost 9 % were past 70 old. Far more than half of them were women. The people deported from Vienna had considerable difficulty in organizing their daily survival in the ghetto. They were housed in mass accommodation, and suffered from the inadequate hygiene. Only for a short time could the Viennese Jews alleviate hunger by selling valuables they had brought with them. Within a few weeks, the mortality rate among the Viennese Jews increased drastically. By May 1942, 771 of them had died of hunger, disease, and exhaustion.
It was very difficult to find work in one of the numerous enterprises in the ghetto in order to at least gradually improve the miserable conditions of life, as unemployment was very high among the Polish Jews in the ghetto themselves.

(Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstandes – DÖW)

The Gestapo building in Lodz ghetto (DÖW Wien)

Map of Lodz ghetto (DÖW Wien)

Introduction of Jewish women from Austria into the Lodz ghetto (DÖW Wien)

Street in Lodz ghetto (DÖW Wien)

Circle letter sent to all "members of the ghetto staff", ordering them to keep silent about events in the ghetto, October 20, 1941

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