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Pictured here are children during a Purim celebration
in the Lodz Ghetto. On September 8, 1939, the Germans occupied Lodz.
Brutal persecution of the Jews began as soon as the city was
occupied. From January to May,1942, 55,000 Jews were sent to their
deaths in the Chelmno death camp. From September 1942 until May 1944
there were no more deportations. After May, the deportations to
Chelmno were renewed. In early August, the Nazis rerouted the
deportations to Auschwitz. By August 30, 1944 about 70,000 Jews from
Lodz were sent to Auschwitz. Lodz was home to 223,000 Jews on the
eve of World War II. At the war’s end, no more than 7,000 Jews from
the Lodz Ghetto had survived the camps
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