Piotrkow Trybunalski is a town in the Lodz province of central Poland. The Germans entered the town on September 5 and by October 14 had created a 12 member Judenrat. All the members of this Judenrat were killed by the Nazis in July, 1941. The Germans established the first ghetto in Poland here on October 28, 1939. By October 15, 1942, there were about 25,000 Jews in the town. By October 22, 1942 (in one week), some 22,000 Jews were deported to the death camp at Treblinka. The remainder were concentrated in camps near the Karo and Hortensia glassworks and the Fischer timber enterprises. In November, 1944, the last Jews were deported to Buchenwald and Ravensbrueck in Germany.
Below is a thumbnail of a notice from the Judenrat in Piotrkow Trybunalski dated January 9, 1940, that a man was unable to work. Please click on the thumbnail to see the full image, and then click your back key or "Ghetto Document" in the left frame to return.
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Spector, The Encyclopedia of Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust (2001), P. 994-96
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