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Bidding Information
Lot #    22573
Auction End Date    1/20/2009 10:48:55 AM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    Pencil Drawing
Author    [Holocaust] Otto von Rausch
City    Litzmannstadt Getto (Lodz), Poland
Publication Date    1940
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Pencil on paper, 278:208 mm., light age and damp staining, signed and dated, trimmed affecting date, backed in newsprint (dated 1948).
          
Detailed
Description		    Lodz was Poland's second largest city and its second largest Jewish community. At the start of the war, there were over 220,000 Jews in the city. The Germans occupied the city on September 8, 1939, and made the city part of the Warthegau, which was annexed the German Reich. The city was renamed Litzmannstadt in honor of the German General Karl Litzmannstadt who had conquered the city during World War I. Between the start of the war and the closing off of the ghetto on April 30, 1940, about 70,000 Jews had fled the city. Accordingly, about 164,000 Jews were in the ghetto at this date.
          
Reference
Description		    http://www.edwardvictor.com/Ghettos/lodz_main.htm
        
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Listing Classification
Period
20th Century:    Checked
  
Location
Russia-Poland:    Checked
  
Subject
Other:    Holocaust
  
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Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica
Art:    Checked