feb 29, 1940 - Łódź Ghetto

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Second largest ghetto after Warsaw. Victims are deported to Chelmno.
-160,000 Jews
-mostly deportees from Germany, Austria, Bohemia-Moravia
-73,000 Jews killed at Chelmno
-Chaim Rumkowski=Head of Judenrat
-Controversial strategy: make the ghetto as productive as possible to convince Nazis not to deport
-Murdered by prisoners at Auschwitz

"The whole ghetto was designed, actually, to starve the people out."
—Leo Schneiderman

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