Figure 1.--This photograph is unidentified, but we believe it is an imcoming transport into the Lodz Ghetto in late 1941. /i> |
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NAZI authorities announced that additional Jews would be brought to Lodz and ordered Jewish authorities to prepare for them. The Lodz residents were shocked. They were already starving and crammed together. Transports began arriving (September 1941). Estimates of the number of people transported into the Ghetto beginning in September 1942 vary. We have noted estimates of 20,000-40,000. These individuals were deported from Germany, Austria, the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (Czechoslovakia), and Luxembourg. About 1,000 individuals arrived in each transport. The transports continued through October. The new arrivals were generally healthy and not yet emaciated by starvation. They were shocked by what they saw when they arrived. The Lodz residents having endurded starvation diets for a year and a half were emaciated and sick, their clothes becoming rags, some without shoes. Many of these new arrivals were so horrified at Ghetto conditions that they volunteered when transports out of the Ghetto began, thinking nothing could be worse than the desperate situation in the Ghetto.
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