What was different about the people who lived in Lodz?
Lodz (called by the Germans LITZMANNSTADT) was included in the Reichsland Wartheland and was annexed to Germany. Therefore Jews of Lodz were subject to different laws than Jews in other parts of Poland under German occupation (called General Gouvernement). The racial laws that applied to Jews in Germany were quite complex. There were Mischlinge first class, second class, etc. The restrictions upon such Mischlinge depended upon the percentage of Jewish blood, and this was measured in fractions; 3/4,1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc. I remember seeing quite a large book dealing with Jews of Lodz under German occupation, but I do not remember the title. There are hundreds of Polish books dealing with non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust, but few have been translated into English. In almost every major city there are still a few survivors from Lodz. I know that there are such people in the large Polish-American community here in Southern California. Alex Lauterbauch ©2000 Encino, California U.S.A The Diar
