fee, and the gmina would itself supply a worker in place of the person summoned.
At the end of December, an official notice appeared in the Lodzer Zeitung⁵⁶ stating that no one had the right to seize Jews for work and that the Jewish community board was obliged to supply the German authorities with the requisite number of workers on a daily basis. But even after that announcement, the affliction imposed on the Jewish population was not much lighter.
The Jews of Łódź welcomed the New Year of 1940 with heavy hearts and great despondency, convinced that wholly new torments and afflictions awaited them in the coming year. They had had a foretaste of the new persecutions and the mass expulsion of Jews from their homes in mid-December when, at the order of the German authorities, the Jewish community proposed that Jews living in certain houses on Zgierska Street leave their homes voluntarily and migrate to western Małopolska. Volunteers were promised that special trains would be provided and that they would be able to take their belongings with them in the carriages. Many Jews expressed their willingness to migrate, and they were entered on the migration lists. They thought this would take a certain amount of time, but the German authorities rushed it through, and the very next night the Gestapo and SS evicted the Jews on the list from their homes and transported them to Małopolska just as they were.
[7] The news spread through the city, giving rise to great turmoil among the whole Jewish population. Anyone who had the wherewithal, and a few dozen marks with which to line the pockets of the German transport contractors, endeavoured to save what he could of his possessions and move them to other locations, mostly to Warsaw. The Łódź-Warsaw route was filled to
56 Official German-language newspaper published by the German authorities. On 10 September 1939 the German occupation authorities resumed the publication of the Freie Presse daily, the issuing of which was suspended on the day of the outbreak of the war. Two weeks later, the newspaper changed its title to Deutsche Lodzer Zeitung. Mit dem amtlichen Bekanntmachungen der deutschen Militärund Zivilbehörden [German Łódź newspaper with official announcements made by the German military and civil authorities]. The newspaper was issued as Lodzer Zeitung from 12 November to 31 December 1939. On 1 January 1940 it changed its title to Lodscher Zeitung, and beginning with 12 April of that year, when Łódź was renamed Litzmannstadt, the newspaper was issued as Litzmannstädter
Zeitung mit dem amtlichen Bekanntmachungen für Stadt und Kreis Litzmannstadt [Litzmannstadt newspaper with official announcements for Łódź city and county. The position of the daily’s editor-in-chief was given to a German from the Reich, Karl Scharping, with Adolf Kargel, Hugo Wieczorek, Horst Markgraf, and Max Ludwig as department heads.
