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who rendered great service to Germany during
WWI as a commander of the German army in the
so-called battle of Lodz in 1914. On April 30,
1940, the ghetto was closed and strictly isolated
from the rest of the city. Initially, 160,000 Jews
from Lodz were incarcerated there. In the
autumn of 1941, the Nazis brought 20,000 peo-
ple to the ghetto. They were Jews from Europe
(including Vienna, Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg,
Luxembourg and Prague) and another 20,000
from the liquidated ghettoes in nearby towns (in-
cluding Zduńska Wola, Sieradz, Pabianice,
Ozorków and Włocławek). Additionally, two other
