The ghetto within a ghetto

byDonna GosbeeGraduate Student Holocaust: Jewish Life in the GhettosPSCI 515 Fall, 2012

“We are forced to take about 5000 Gypsies into the ghetto.

I’ve explained that we cannot live together with them.

Gypsies are the sort of people who can do anything. First

they rob and then they set fire, and soon everything is in

flames, including your factories and materials.” - Mordecai Chaim Rumkowsi November 1, 1941

Who are the “Gypsies,” and

where do they come from?

“There had been no beds or bunk beds. Straw thrown on the floor and covered with rags served as a bed - for how many? Thirty? Forty? One hundred inhabitants of this ant-hill? It was shocking.”

-- Arnold Mostowicz, Physician,

Lodz Survivor and Author of With a Yellow Star and A Red Cross: A Doctor in the Lodz Ghetto

“The butcher allowed the victims to watch each other.”

Arnold Mostowicz

“None of those Gypsies survived….The wires were

rolled up, the blood traces on the walls painted over, no

traces of crime…”

- Sara Zyskind, Holocaust s

survivor and author of The Light in the Valley of Tears.

Sources

Photographs: Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center.http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/photos.html

Photographs: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/photo

Photographs: Dobroszycki, Lucjan, ed., The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto: 1941-1944. New Haven:Yale University Press, 1984.

Photographs: Adelson, Alan and Robert Lapides, eds. Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege.New York: Penguin Books, 1989.

Mostowicz, Arnold. With a Yellow Star and Red Cross: A Doctor in the Lodz Ghetto. London:Vallentine-Mitchell, 2005.

Baranowski, Julian. Zigeunerlager in Litzmannstadt 1941-1942 (The Gypsy Camp in Lodz 1942-1942),Lodz: Bilbo, 2003.

“The Gypsy Camp (Ziguenerlager) Brzezinzka Street” Litzmannstadt Ghetto http://www.lodz-ghetto.com/the_gypsy_camp.html,36