Word: lodz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...whose own lives frequently depended on the ferocity they displayed toward their fellow prisoners. Throughout the Reich, the Nazi system spawned flunkies of almost opera-bouffe dimensions. The megalomaniacal Chaim Rumkowski, a failed Jewish industrialist who, probably with Nazi support, set himself up as the president of the Lodz ghetto, had the power to print his own currency and stamps bearing his portrait. In the end Rumkowski came to believe he was the savior of his people, who nevertheless were shipped to the camps when the Germans liquidated the ghetto in 1944. According to one version of + Rumkowski's fate...
...down the river, speaking softly. The first, Simon Srebnik, was a boy of 13 when he saw his father killed at Lodz and was himself sent to Chelmno. He was known, he remembers, by the villagers there as well as by the SS guards as the little boy with the beautiful voice, who sang Polish folk songs. The other man is French film-maker Claude Lanzmann, who more than 40 years later has persuaded Srebnik to return to Chelmno and sing the songs of his childhood...
NONFICTION: Bloods, Wallace Terry The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Editor ∙Finding the Center, V.S. Naipaul ∙ "The Good War," Studs Terkel ∙The Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser ∙ Writers at Work, George Plimpton, Editor
Paying for Lodz Stefan Kanfer, in concluding his review of The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944 [BOOKS, Sept. 10], implied a direct link from Nazi atrocities to the creation of the state of Israel to our current guilt or discomfort over tensions in the Middle East. If indeed the world is paying so "high a price," the reason-anti-Semitism-predates the Second World War. As those "headlines from the Middle East" testify, that continues to this...
...doubt if the 240,000 men, women and children who inhabited the Lodz ghetto would appreciate your discussion of their tragic existence in one breath, and in the next, your political statement that "one has only to glance at the headlines from the Middle East to know how high a price the world continues to pay for the crimes that were committed there." There is no price to be paid. The residents of Lodz paid long...