cover image Lodz Ghetto: 2a Community History Told in Diaries, Journals, and Documents

Lodz Ghetto: 2a Community History Told in Diaries, Journals, and Documents

Alan Adelson. Penguin Books, $17.95 (560pp) ISBN 978-0-14-013228-1

This searing documentary is composed of letters, poems and notebooks from the sealed-off ghetto in Lodz, Poland, where more than 200,000 Jews were forced by the Nazis into slave labor before deportation to extermination camps. ``Photographs taken inside the ghetto, interwoven with the text, convey anguish and the will to survive,'' said PW , calling this ``an important contribution to Holocaust literature.'' Photos. (Apr.)