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No. 8 (2012)

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Publication date:
2012-12-02

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Facing a “Difficult Necessity.” Jewish Administration of the Łódź Ghetto in the Face of Deportations of Jews from the Reich and Protectorate (October–November 1941)

Adam Sitarek

adam.sitarek@uni.lodz.pl

doktor historii, adiunkt w Centrum Badań Żydowskich Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, członek Polskiego Towarzystwa Studiów Żydowskich i European Association for Jewish Studies. Autor monografii „Otoczone drutem państwo”. Struktura i funkcjonowanie administracji żydowskiej getta łódzkiego, nagrodzonej w 2016 r. w kategorii debiut w konkursie tygodnika „Polityka”. Członek zespołu redakcyjnego publikacji Kroniki getta łódzkiego 1941–1944 (2009) Encyklopedia getta. Niedokończony projekt archiwistów z getta łódzkiego (2015) oraz Rok za drutem kolczastym. Obwieszczenia Przełożonego Starszeństwa Żydów z getta łódzkiego (2019). Kierownik projektu „Leksykon getta łódzkiego”, realizowanego w ramach Narodowego Programu Rozwoju Humanistyki.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3958-7262

Center for Jewish Studies, University of Lodz

Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 8 (2012), pages: 331-347

Publication date: 2012-12-02

https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.692

Abstract

In fall 1941 the Jewish administration of the Łódź ghetto headed by Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski was ordered to receive 20,000 deportees from the Reich and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Rumkowski immediately began the preparations. Significant forces and resources of the Łódź ghetto administration were engaged in the operation. The Judenrat head’s documentation shows him as an able organizer, who personally oversaw the proceedings and held numerous meetings with his subordinate clerks. His actions fit a certain model of activity of representatives of ghetto administration toward the newcomers from the Reich and the Protectorate. Such persons were e.g. separated from the others and placed in the co-called collectives. Rumkowski established a special administrative agency to deal with the newcomers – the Newcomers Section

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Sitarek, A. (2012). Facing a “Difficult Necessity.” Jewish Administration of the Łódź Ghetto in the Face of Deportations of Jews from the Reich and Protectorate (October–November 1941). Zagłada Żydów. Studia I Materiały, (8), 331-347. https://doi.org/10.32927/zzsim.692

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No. 8 (2012)

ISSN:
1895-247X
eISSN:
2657-3571

Data publikacji:
2012-12-02

Dział: From research workshops