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The Jews
were resettled in the Lodz Ghetto in an action replete with
brutality, looting, abuse, and murder. As they were led to the
ghetto, snipers on rooftops opened fire on them to frighten them and
expedite their departure. They fled to the ghetto in panic. The Lodz
Ghetto was sealed on April 30. Some 164,000 Jews of Lodz were packed
into its four square kilometers, of which only two and a half square
kilometers were built. The congestion in the area that comprised the
ghetto was seven times greater than it had been before the war. The
ghetto area was carved into three sectors by two main streets that
linked neighborhoods outside the ghetto. Congestion, hunger, cold,
and poor sanitation led immediately to mass mortality.
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