Radomsko is a city in the Lodz district of central Poland. At the start of the war, the Jewish population was about 10,000 (40% of the total population). The Germans occupied the town on September 3, 1939, and a Judenrat was established soon thereafter. The ghetto, established on December 20, 1939, was the second in Poland. Throughout its existence, a large number of deaths occurred as a result of typhus and other epidemics, malnutrition and intolerable working conditions. On October 9, 1942, the ghetto was sealed, and between October 10-12, all the Jews in the ghetto (about 14,000) were deported to the Treblinka death camp. The ghetto was reopened on November 14, 1942 to house about 4,500 Jews from surrounding towns. These Jews were deported to Treblinka on January 6, 1943.
Below are thumbnails of the front and back of a postcard sent by A. Kolender from the Juden-rat Radomsko (with a black Judenrat hand stamp) to the Judenrat in the Litzmannstadt ghetto, postmarked June 26, 1941. The card contains a handwritten message in Polish and a response from Lodz in green ink. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Postcard" in the left frame to return.
http://www.death-camps.org/occupation/radomsko ghetto.html
Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (2001), P. 1047-48
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