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4. The "Ghetto" Lödz was a Polish city with 240,000 Jews (a third of the population). In 1943 the deportations to the various extermination camps began. In August 1944, Chaim Rumkowski, The Eldest of the Jews was deported in one of the last convoys to Auschwitz were he was killed. |
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Letter mailed on June 5, 1941 from Chaim Rumkowski, The eldest of the Jews in the Lödz ghetto which shows the arrival stamp at the Russian city Gorodyszcze (Baranov) and the hand stamp of the German censor. Click on image to enlarge it |
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Postage stamps to be used within the ghetto. The image is of Chaim Rumkowski. |
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