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Voices from the Lodz Ghetto: Conversations with Survivors

Chaim Kozienicki discusses the anti-Jewish restrictions implemented in Lodz after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, and his family's forced relocation into the Lodz ghetto in March 1940.

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TRANSCRIPT:

Kozienicki:
Before the, they were in the ghetto, they said that the ghetto will be, we have been….

Pollin:
forced

Kozienicki:
We have been a forced to give up the radio, the animals, home animals, jewelry, and we have not been allowed to come to the cinema, and to the uh to the gardens and uh it was everything forbidden for Jews. We came to the ghetto in a very small part of the town. It was 10, 12 people in a flat. It was 3, 4 families and we have been lucky in that that we received …..

Pollin:
hut, a wooden hut

Kozienicki:
A wooden hut, but the hut was staying very near the border of the ghetto. The ghetto was closed with wire and the German police they stood about 2 meters, 3 meters from our flat as I called it. It was a wooden house and we have a yard. On the yard was a…

Yavani:
A well, a water well

Kozienicki:
A water well with the man well where we put out the water, but we didn't ever go out on the evening, because the German soldier, uh

Pollin:
guard

Kozienicki:
The German guard was willing to shot inside the ghetto.

 

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