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The Iron Cross Knights in the Łódź Ghetto
Ewa Wiatr
ewa.wiatr@uni.lodz.pl Biopracownik powstałego w 2005 r. Centrum Badań Żydowskich Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, doktorantka w Instytucie Historii PAN w Zakładzie Systemów Totalitarnych i Dziejów II Wojny Światowej. Interesuje się historią Żydów i mniejszości narodowych w Łodzi i regionie. Członek zespołu redaktorów i wydawców pięciotomowej Kroniki getta łódzkiego/Litzmannstadt Getto (2009).
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2675-0726
Center for Jewish Studies, University of Lodz
Zagłada Żydów. Studia i Materiały, No. 8 (2012), pages: 348-361
Publication date: 2012-12-02
Abstract
At the end of 1941 20,000 Jews were deported from Western Europe to the ghetto in Łódź. Among them there were a few hundred World War I veterans, many of whom were Iron Cross knights. The group was officially excluded from the deportations of Western European Jews to the Chelmno nad Nerem death camp in May 194
Keywords
Łódź ghetto, deportations of Jews from Western Europe, Jews in the German army during World War I, war decorations
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