Thirteen leaves "Biuletyn Kroniki Codziennej" [The Bulletin of the Daily Chronicle] printed on behalf of Wydział Archiwum [Archive Department] of the Lodz Ghetto. Lodz, 1941-1942. Polish. Bulletins no. 49, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 78, 80, 98, 103, 107, 108, 109. Typewritten / duplicated. The shortened title "B.K.C." appears on some of the issues. Deletions and numerous handwritten comments appear on some, in pen and in pencil (most probably from the time of printing). Offered here are original leaves of "the Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto". The decision to found the archive department that published the chronicle, was taken by the head of the Judenrat, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. The chronicle was written continuously from early in January 1941 to July 30, 1944. The chronicle compiles a daily chronological summary of events that had transpired in the ghetto. The authors were journalists, authors and intellectuals; among the prominent authors were the journalist Julian Cukier, engineer Bernard Ostrowsky, ethnographer Josef Zelkowicz and the biblical scholar Dr. Avraham Shalom Kamenetzky. The records are based on documents and facts submitted to the archives by the various departments of the Jewish administration in the ghetto, according to an explicit order by Rumkowski. The leaves contain documentation, generally on a daily basis, of the weather, statistics regarding births and deaths, arrests and criminal matters, food distribution, state of the population's health, broadsides and official notices, reports from work places, events such as persecutions and deportations, oppression and executions. Articles about life in the ghetto appear often in the chronicles, concerning the population’s mood, photographs of daily life, rumors and even jokes. The chronicle leaves which survived the liquidation of the ghetto include some 2,000 typewritten leaves, which are presently in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and in YIVO Institute in New-York. In 1965-1966 parts of the chronicles were published in Poland, and in 1984 a significant part of the chronicles, translated to English was published in the United States. The complete version of the chronicles was printed in Israel, in four volumes during 1987-1989. Lucjan Dobroszycki writes in the introduction to the Hebrew edition: “The chronicle of Lodz Ghetto is devastating in its simplicity and constitutes a document of extreme historical value. The vast scope of information, the accuracy of the records and the systematic manner in which it was composed, create a unique source of information, unlike any other source of information concerning the extermination of European Jews in World War II. Unlike numerous personal accounts from that period, the chronicle was not only composed on a daily basis, but the facts and events recorded were based on first hand sources or on documents which were also composed at the time, mainly due to the fact that it was composed by an institute which had access to almost all of the inner records of the ghetto. This institute was the archive of the head of the Judenrat in Lodz Ghetto”. Lot of 17 leaves, average size: 30 cm. Condition varies. Some are torn, with folding marks, and significantly worn.
Thirteen leaves "Biuletyn Kroniki Codziennej" [The Bulletin of the Daily Chronicle] printed on behalf of Wydział Archiwum [Archive Department] of the Lodz Ghetto. Lodz, 1941-1942. Polish. Bulletins no. 49, 66, 67, 68, 70, 71, 78, 80, 98, 103, 107, 108, 109. Typewritten / duplicated. The shortened title "B.K.C." appears on some of the issues. Deletions and numerous handwritten comments appear on some, in pen and in pencil (most probably from the time of printing). Offered here are original leaves of "the Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto". The decision to found the archive department that published the chronicle, was taken by the head of the Judenrat, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. The chronicle was written continuously from early in January 1941 to July 30, 1944. The chronicle compiles a daily chronological summary of events that had transpired in the ghetto. The authors were journalists, authors and intellectuals; among the prominent authors were the journalist Julian Cukier, engineer Bernard Ostrowsky, ethnographer Josef Zelkowicz and the biblical scholar Dr. Avraham Shalom Kamenetzky. The records are based on documents and facts submitted to the archives by the various departments of the Jewish administration in the ghetto, according to an explicit order by Rumkowski. The leaves contain documentation, generally on a daily basis, of the weather, statistics regarding births and deaths, arrests and criminal matters, food distribution, state of the population's health, broadsides and official notices, reports from work places, events such as persecutions and deportations, oppression and executions. Articles about life in the ghetto appear often in the chronicles, concerning the population’s mood, photographs of daily life, rumors and even jokes. The chronicle leaves which survived the liquidation of the ghetto include some 2,000 typewritten leaves, which are presently in the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw and in YIVO Institute in New-York. In 1965-1966 parts of the chronicles were published in Poland, and in 1984 a significant part of the chronicles, translated to English was published in the United States. The complete version of the chronicles was printed in Israel, in four volumes during 1987-1989. Lucjan Dobroszycki writes in the introduction to the Hebrew edition: “The chronicle of Lodz Ghetto is devastating in its simplicity and constitutes a document of extreme historical value. The vast scope of information, the accuracy of the records and the systematic manner in which it was composed, create a unique source of information, unlike any other source of information concerning the extermination of European Jews in World War II. Unlike numerous personal accounts from that period, the chronicle was not only composed on a daily basis, but the facts and events recorded were based on first hand sources or on documents which were also composed at the time, mainly due to the fact that it was composed by an institute which had access to almost all of the inner records of the ghetto. This institute was the archive of the head of the Judenrat in Lodz Ghetto”. Lot of 17 leaves, average size: 30 cm. Condition varies. Some are torn, with folding marks, and significantly worn.
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