“With love to Mom, from Avram. Lodz Ghetto. March, 1943,” reads the inscription in Polish on the amulet, which was made from two old coins. The son apparently made the amulet for his mother so ...

Mr Turski survived the Lodz Ghetto, extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and two death marches as a teenager.

210,000 Polish In 1940 Jews were forced to live in the Lodz ghetto, 2.5 sqm. Most were deported to extermination camps while others either died from disease or hunger. By the end of the war only ...

At the time, Mr. Turski was 13, living in the Polish city of Lodz with his parents and younger brother. They were soon incarcerated in the Lodz Ghetto, an open-air prison and forced-labor site ...

a Lodz Ghetto survivor whose so-called 11th commandment — “Thou shalt not be indifferent” — became the slogan for programming by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews around the ...

A visit to the Lodz ghetto in Nazi occupied Poland, recorded by German cameramen with the naive cooperation of the Jewish community, is combined with rare archival footage, clips from international ...

Speaking in 2020 at the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where he was shipped from the Lodz ghetto when he was a teenager ...

As a teenager, Turski was shipped from Poland’s Lodz ghetto to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. His father and brother were killed there. Altogether 39 of his family members were ...

A Polish Jew. A person without whom our museum would not exist,” the museum director, Zygmunt Stępiński, wrote in a statement. Turski survived the Lodz ghetto, where he and his family were ...

From Hamburg the Jews went by train to the Lódz Ghetto in Poland, one of many ghettos the Nazis had created to imprison Polish Jews. SS-Brigadefuehrer Reinhard Heydrich at Gestapo headquarters in ...