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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...
NONFICTION: Bloods, Wallace Terry The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto, 1941-1944, Lucjan Dobroszycki, Editor ∙ The Death Merchant, Joseph C. Goulden ∙ Josephine Herbst, Elinor Langer ∙ The Weaker Vessel, Antonia Fraser Writers at Work, George Plimpton, Editor
...CHRONICLE OF THE LODZ GHETTO, 1941-1944 Edited by Lucjan Dobroszycki; translated by Richard Lourie, Joachim Neugroschel and others; Yale; 551 pages...
...commemorate the uprising, and periodically a dwindling number of survivors meet to recall the martyrs and make the celebrated vow "Never again." But another ghetto existed about 75 miles from Warsaw and an eternity away from a deaf, distracted world. Hardly anyone, then or now, ever knew of Lodz. And yet it was there, in the second largest concentration in all of Europe, that some 240,000 Jews were crowded. Within the barbed-wire boundaries a microcosm arose. Children were born, stores were opened, a road constructed, hospitals set up, administrators employed, records kept. It is these records, miraculously preserved...