Der Ael Teste Der Juden In Litzmannstadt. Ticket #170061 With a number table giving the right to receive daily bread in the Lodz ghetto for a period of 60 days. The ticket belonged to a Jewish resident of the ghetto named Shalom Greensein. The details were added on: 4/5/1942. It was used only 14 times.
Underneath the lines with the ticket holder's name, there are German instructions regarding the way to receive the bread along with the punishment meted out to people who did not follow these regulations.
In contrast to other ghettos where food and basic goods were smuggled in from outside the ghetto; in Lodz, the German authorities were so strict that it was virtually impossible to smuggle anything in. The Jews were completely dependent on the German authorities and Judenrat for food, medicine and any other vital goods. Hunger and disease were rampant. About 164,000 people were forced to live together in 4 square kilometers, of which only 2.4 kilometers were appropriate for residential use. The ghetto was liquidated by the Nazis in 1944. This ticket was used in 1942, considered the most difficult period in the Lodz ghetto, as this was when the Nazi authorities further limited the food rations of the unemployed population.
Size: 14x17 cm. Stains. Moderate - fine condition.
