Isaiah Trunk (1905–1982) was Senior Research Associate and Chief Archivist at the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He is author of Judenrat: The Jewish Councils in Eastern Europe under Nazi Occupation.Robert Moses Shapiro is Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies, Brooklyn College, City University of New York. He is editor of Holocaust Chronicles: Individualizing the Holocaust through Diaries and Other Contemporaneous Personal Accounts.

• ContentsList of Major Tables, Charts, and MapsList of AbbreviationsTranslator-Editor's IntroductionRobert Moses ShapiroIsaiah TrunkJoseph KermishIntroduction: The Distinctiveness of the Lódz GhettoIsrael GutmanForewordJacob RobinsonAuthor's PrefaceIsaiah TrunkI. Establishment of the GhettoDocuments 1–23II. Organization of the GhettoDocuments 26–64III. ProvisioningDocuments 65–83IV. Forced LaborDocuments 84–95V. Diseases and MortalityVI. Persecutions, Murder, and DeportationsDocuments 96–112VII. Internal ConditionsDocuments 113–141VIII. The Problem of ResistanceIX. Conclusions and SummationsDocuments Arranged by ChapterStreet Names in Lódz GhettoBibliographyIndexesNames of German Officials and Business FirmsPlacesSubjects

"A monumental work."—Financial Times"Trunk's essential volume provides invaluable material for yet more objective 'appreciations' of the terrible plight of the Jewish leaderships and inhabitants in the 'ghettos for Jews' set up by the Nazi authorities in the East. Vol. 89, no. 1, January 2011"—Slavonic and East European Review"This translation . . . makes available an invaluable resource for English-language readers. . . . The book is handsomely produced and, in addition to 141 original documents (in translation), an extraordinarily detailed index, and period photographs, contains informative essays by translator-editor Shapiro and two renowned Holocaust scholars, the late Joseph Kermish and Israel Gutman. An indispensable tool for Holocaust research. . . . Essential."—Choice