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  • ghetto
  • German operations
  • communication, awareness of Holocaust, negative

  • A ghetto established on 8 October 1939 with H. Drechsel's decree. The first ghetto on Polish territories. 16 thousand people lived there. In October 1942 a mass extermination of the Jews started.

  • Memoirs of Zofia Marczak from 1939-1945, written on 26 February 1963, sent by the Department of Propaganda of the Provincial Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (KW PZPR) in Lodz to the Jewish Historical Institute. The author describes the deportation of Jews from Krosniewice, her stay in Piotrkow and subsequent activity in the Polish Workers' Party (PPR) in Warsaw. The footnotes feature brief profiles of some of the activists: Leokadia Staszewska from Piotrkow, Stanislaw Sowa from Warsaw, and 'Grandma' ('Babcia') Zabicka from Marymont, Warsaw. Written on 26 February 1963, Lodz, Zrodlowa St. No. 45 flat 6, tel. 301-00; original, typescript, 16 pages, 210 x 295 mm, in Polish.
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