1. by
Donna Gosbee
Graduate Student
Holocaust: Jewish Life in
the Ghettos
PSCI 515 Fall, 2012

10. “We are forced to take about 5000 Gypsies into the ghetto.
I’ve explained that we cannot live together with them.
Gypsies are the sort of people who can do anything. First
they rob and then they set fire, and soon everything is in
flames, including your factories and materials.”
- Mordecai Chaim Rumkowsi November 1, 1941

11. Who are the “Gypsies,” and
where do they come from?

29. “There had been no beds or bunk beds.
Straw thrown on the floor and covered
with rags served as a bed - for how
many? Thirty? Forty? One hundred
inhabitants of this ant-hill? It was
shocking.”
-- Arnold Mostowicz, Physician,
Lodz Survivor and Author of With a
Yellow Star and A Red Cross: A Doctor
in the Lodz Ghetto

31. “The butcher
allowed the
victims to
watch each
other.”
Arnold Mostowicz

41. “None of those Gypsies
survived….The wires were
rolled up, the blood traces on
the walls painted over, no
traces of crime…”
- Sara Zyskind, Holocaust s
survivor and author of The
Light in the Valley of Tears.

59. Sources
Photographs: Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial Center.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/photos.html
Photographs: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/photo
Photographs: Dobroszycki, Lucjan, ed., The Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto: 1941-1944. New Haven:
Yale University Press, 1984.
Photographs: Adelson, Alan and Robert Lapides, eds. Lodz Ghetto: Inside a Community Under Siege.
New York: Penguin Books, 1989.
Mostowicz, Arnold. With a Yellow Star and Red Cross: A Doctor in the Lodz Ghetto. London:
Vallentine-Mitchell, 2005.
Baranowski, Julian. Zigeunerlager in Litzmannstadt 1941-1942 (The Gypsy Camp in Lodz 1942-1942),
Lodz: Bilbo, 2003.
“The Gypsy Camp (Ziguenerlager) Brzezinzka Street” Litzmannstadt Ghetto http://www.lodz-
ghetto.com/the_gypsy_camp.html,36