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  • Overview
    Title
    Deportation from the hospital
    Date
    September, 1942
    Medium
    half-tone positive on polyester film base with painted verso
    Dimensions
    Overall: 28.5 x 39.8 cm (11 1/4 x 15 11/16 in.)
    Credit Line
    Gift from Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007
    Object Number
    2007/2624.2
    Type of object
    Photomechanical Transparency
    Description

    "Great distress, deportation from hospital." -Henryk Ross

    According to the Ghetto Fighters' House Archives, Jewish policemen are catching deportees trying to escape from the hospital at 36 Lagiewnicka Street, which was an assembly point for deportees. The photograph was taken on September 10, 1942, during the "Gehsperre" [German: "curfew"] Aktion in the ghetto.

  • Extended Label

    In 1942, the Nazis ordered the ghetto's Jewish Council to deport nearly 20,000 residents. They targeted the elderly, the sick and children under the age of 10, who were not seen to have value as laborers. Rumkowski, the Elder of the Jewish Council, was delegated to prepare the deportation list. He exempted certain people, including the family members of those involved in the ghetto administration.

    Many families hid their loved ones, but the German secret police conducted searches, removed these residents from their homes and loaded them into carts. Nearly 18,000 Lodz Ghetto residents were sent to Chelmno to be killed.

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