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Contains list of c. 200,000 names of individuals interned in the Lodz ghetto. Entries include sex, birthdate, occupation, address and notes from the German lists. The book contains a summary about the history of the Lodz ghetto.
A 1920s map by sociologist Frederic M. Thrasher placed the Polish and Bohemian enclaves throughout the entire West Side, including the Lower West Side near Halsted Street; Germans occupied the northern lakefront, with Jewish people settling north of Madison Street and also along the southern lakefront.
Chicago, the spatial delineation of the Jewish community was voluntary rather than compulsory, with a concentration of German-speaking Jews near the city’s business district already evident before the Great Fire of 1871. Following that disaster and the arrival of large numbers of Eastern European and Russian immigrants, the community was ...
Chicago’s German Jewish community founded several institutions including Michael Reese Hospital, The Drexel Home for Aged Jews in the Woodlawn neighborhood, and The Standard Club (an exclusive private club located in the Loop).
Frankfort, Budapest, Rome, Venice, Vilna, were among the largest, best-known historical European Ghettos. On the West Side of Chicago, observers and commentators alike noted, a Jewish “ghetto” existed within a slum.
6 dni temu · This volume provides a comprehensive account of how the Nazis established ghettos throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union, an important step in the segregation, concentration, and persecution of Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust.
The digitization of the Chicago Defender makes it possible to trace how often the term "ghetto" was mentioned in the pages of the main African American daily. The analysis shows that "ghetto" was only used up to three times annually during the 1920s.
