The Shoah (1939–1945)
Confinement in ghettos
Avril-nov. 1940·Łódź et Varsovie
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Łódź is sealed on April 30, Warsaw on November 16: approximately 160,000 and 400,000 people are cut off from the rest of the city, on reduced rations.
Łódź was sealed on April 30, and Warsaw on November 16, 1940: two entire populations were cut off from the rest of their city by barriers, walls, and fences, and placed under a regime of reduced rations. Jewish inhabitants from the outer districts were transferred in, those who were not Jewish were moved out, and the belongings left behind were seized.
Confinement was not yet extermination, but it prepared its material conditions: concentration in an enclosed space, census-taking, Jewish councils compelled to administer scarcity, captive labor for German workshops. It was from these two ghettos, the largest in occupied Europe, that the convoys departed for Chełmno and Treblinka.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Chronique du ghetto de Łódź ; archives clandestines Oneg Shabbat et ordonnances du gouvernement général.