An employee of the State Archive in Łódź, author of the doctoral dissertation “The Eldest of the Jews in Łódź 1939-1944. Archival Processes” defended at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. Her research interests include issues in the history of the Holocaust with particular emphasis on the provincial ghettos in Reichsgau Wartheland, the T4 action. Her circle of research includes archival science, the functioning of chancelleries and offices in the 20th century, filing and archival processes. She is the author of the book, “Untold History. Unsent postcards from the Łódź ghetto” and articles on archival science and history.

Born in Łódź on April, 23 1908. After the outbreak of the First World War, his family moved to Poltava. The Brymans returned to Łódź in 1921. In 1925 Bryman was admitted to the Polish Community Secondary School for Boys in Łódź, from which he graduated in 1927. In the same year, he began studies at the University of Warsaw. In November 27, 1939, he was appointed teacher in the Public School No. 151 at 6 Magistracka St. 
After the ghetto was created, the school was moved to 25 Młynarska St. and given the number 17A. Bryman worked there until October 29, 1940, when he was appointed headmaster of Elementary School No. 18B, located at 11 Urzędnicza St. In the autumn of 1941 when all schools in the ghetto closed, Bryman lost his position. On March 22, 1942, he was employed at the Census Department. 
Bryman was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau camp probably on August 1944. On September 16th 1944 he was transported to Dachau, where he died on November 11, 1944.

Rabbi Dr Frank Dabba Smith's PhD dissertation at University College London (UCL) was concerned with the behaviour of the renowned German camera manufacturer Ernst Leitz of Wetzlar from 1933 to 1945. He has been a Lecturer at Leo Baeck College teaching courses on death, dying and bereavement as well as the Holocaust to rabbinic students. In addition, he is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Hebrew and Jewish Studies Department at UCL. Publications include My Secret Camera (Harcourt and Frances Lincoln, 2000), Elsie’s War (Frances Lincoln, 2003) and Leica Pocket Book, 9th Edition (Red Dot, 2023). Subject of the ARTE film documentary film Die Nazis, der Rabbi und die Camera (directed by Claus Bredenbrock, 2023).

Graduate of the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Philosophy and History of the University of Łódź. In 2004, she received her doctoral degree in the humanities. Employed at the Institute of Art History at the University of Łódź as an assistant professor. Author of the book: “Jewish Painters in Łódź 1880-1919” and dozens of articles on such subjects as the work of Jewish artists, Jewish sepulchral art of the 19th and 20th centuries, art in the Łódź Ghetto. Member of the Polish Association for Jewish Studies, the Polish Institute for World Art Studies and the Association of Art Historians. Since 2011, she has directed inventory work at the Jewish cemetery in Łódź, Roman Catholic cemeteries in Kutno and Żytno, and has also inventoried monuments from the Jewish cemetery in Brzeziny and Bełchatów.

A graduate in archaeology at the University of Łódź, a museologist, curator at the Radegast Station Memorial. His interests include the history of Holocaust with particular emphasis on the Łódź Ghetto and the history of the Chelmno extermination camp. Author or co-author of exhibitions and publications devoted to the extermination camp in Chelmno and Łódź Ghetto. Participant in the Polish-Jewish Dialogue Leaders Program conducted by the Dialogue Forum Foundation. Scholarship holder of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage.

Art historian. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Polish Studies at the Jagiellonian University, where he is working on a project on the functioning of the Graphic Office of the Lodz Ghetto. His research interests focus on socially and politically engaged art from the interwar avant-garde to the present day, as well as art and visual documents created during the Holocaust, with a particular focus on the visual policies implemented by the Judenrats.

Born on November 16, 1908, in Łódź. Studied at the Polish Community Secondary School for Boys in Łódź. From 1927, he studied law at the University of Warsaw.
When the war broke out, he was training to be an attorney at the office of Attorney Karol Pfaff in Pabianice and a translator of German and Russian. Since October 1939 he worked as a translator. He was an official intermediary with the occupation authorities, responsible for Jewish prisoners in the Radogoszcz prison. He was involved in organising a number of agencies of the Jewish administration, head of the Census Department. After the deportation of the Jews from Western Europe he was appointed the head of the Department for the Outsettled. He was famous as a very efficient organizer and honest man. Deported to Auschwitz in August 1944, he died on March 6, 1945 in Dachau.<br

Lives in Metula, Israel. Lecturer at Tel Hai Academic College and Research Associate at the Institute for Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 
Educator and teacher at the Branko Weiss high school in Kiryat Shmona, an educational institution intended for youth who have difficulty integrating into the normative educational frameworks. Instructor at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem.
PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Thesis title: “Josef Zelkowicz and the Circle of Intellectuals in the Łódź Ghetto.” 
Author "I burned all the bridges behind me: Josef Zelkowicz and the Circle of Intellectuals in the Łódz Ghetto."

Born on January 21, 1908 in Łódź. In 1926-1931 he studied in Belgium. He lived at 7 Piramowicza St. in Łódź. Forced to move to the ghetto, he lived with his mother at 8 Zgierska St. On March 6, 1941, he took a job in the Archives Department. It was offered to him by Henryk Neftalin, who knew Ostrowski through a mutual friend, lawyer Volk. One of his tasks was to conduct interviews with those responsible for organizing the ghetto: Moshe Zazujer, Wolf Zbar, Henryk Neftalin and Stanislaw Jakobson. After the reorganization of the Archive Department, Ostrowski was in charge of ghetto history. 
After the war, he settled in Łódź and worked at the Design Bureau of the Textile Industry. In 1957, together with his wife Irena and his mother, he emigrated to Israel and settled in Holon. He was the only author of the Encyclopedia and the Ghetto Chronicle to survive the war. He died on October 10, 1974.

Researcher in the Department of German Studies at the Institute of German Philology at the University of Łódź. Author of numerous publications on the social and cultural life of Łódź Jews and Germans, as well as articles on literature and culture in the Łódź Ghetto. Author of the monograph “Flaschenpost aus der Hölle. Texte aus Lodzer Getto” (2011) devoted to literary works in the Łódź Ghetto. Co-editor of the five-volume “Chronicle of the Łódź Ghetto” (2009) and “Encyclopedia of the Łódź Ghetto” (2014). From 2012 to 2017, she headed the NPRH project “Culture and Literature of the Jews of Łódź 1918-1950: A Critical Edition of Sources” under which six volumes of source texts were published, as well as the NPRH projects “Literary Culture of Łódź until 1939”, “Lodz Yiddish Avant-Garde” and since 2004 “Łódź Jewish Memory Books”. Co-publisher of the publishing series “Łódzkie Judaica”. Winner of the Polish-German Copernicus 2022 prize for Holocaust research.

Born on May 13, 1884 in Korycany, Moravia. He studied in Vienna, where he earned a doctorate in philology and art history. He worked as a journalist and art critic. He co-founded Vienna's first Jewish theater, wrote short stories and novels, and was also involved in translating Jewish literature. 
He met Theodor Herzl and became a supporter of the Zionist idea. After the incorporation of Austria to the Reich, he emigrated with his wife Henrietta to Prague, where he worked for the London-based “The Jewish Chronicle”. He planned to emigrate to England, where Henrietta arrived just before the outbreak of war. In November 1941 he was deported to Łódź. In the ghetto he lived at 3 Zgierska St. and later at Dworska St.. He worked in the Archives Department, where he was one of the authors of the Chronicle and the Encyclopedia. In the ghetto he kept a diary. In August 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered there.

Born on February 24, 1893 in Silesian Ustroń. He completed his legal studies in Vienna, earning a doctorate. He worked as a lawyer, after he moved to Prague, he took up journalism. He published in “Jüdisches Tageblatt,” the organ of the Jewish community and Zionist organization in Prague. Singer's first drama, titled “Landsturm”, was published in 1917, followed by another in 1935, titled “Herren der Welt”, which was staged at the Jewish Chamber Stage in Prague.
In the fall of 1941, he was deported with his family to Łódź. In the ghetto, he settled at 47 Limanowskiego St. He was employed by the Archives Department, which he headed from February 1943. In addition to his work on the Chronicle and Encyclopedia, he wrote reports showing life in the ghetto and essays on the relationship between Eastern and Western Jews. In August 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, then to Sachsenhausen and on to Kaufering, where he died on December 31, 1944 or January 15, 1945.

Historian, Assistant Professor at the Filip Friedman Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Łódź, member of the Polish Association for Jewish Studies, the European Association of Jewish Studies and the European Association for Digital Humanities. 
Author of the monograph: Wired Bound State. The Structure and Functioning of the Jewish Administration of the Łódź Ghetto (2015), for which he received the History Award of the Polityka weekly. Academic editor of a number of source publications on the history of the Łódź Ghetto, including Rok za drutami. Obwieszczenia Przełożonego Starszeństwa Żydów z getta łódzkiego (2020), Encyclopedia of the Ghetto. The Unfinished Project of the Łódź Ghetto Archivists (2014), Kronika getta łódzkiego (5 volumes, 2009), and personal testimonies, including Victor Hahn's Diary (2020), Heńek Fogel's Diary (2019) and Dawid Sierakowiak's Diary (2015).

Born on January 14, 1906 in Łódź. His middle school education was paid for by his teacher, who appreciated his abilities. Szpigiel studied and worked at the same time. He was interested in literature, primarily Polish and Jewish. He published his first poem in the “Lodzer Folksblat”, and published his first volume of poems in Yiddish in 1930. 
In March 1940, together with his wife and daughter Ewa, he was forced to live in the ghetto. They settled at 39 Zgierska St,, and from July 26, 1944 at 53 Piwna St.
He worked in the Benefits Department, then in the Records Department, the Department for the Resettled, the Card Department and in 1943 the Office Department, where he served as deputy manager. 
In the ghetto, Szpigiel did not stop writing. His work was strongly influenced by the death of his several-month-old daughter Ewa. He was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944 and then evacuated deep into the Reich, where he was liberated.

Graduated in history and sociology from the University of Łódź. In 2023, she received her doctoral degree on the basis of a dissertation on the memory of the Jewish community among the inhabitants of cities in the former Reichsgau Wartheland. Assistant Professor at the Filip Friedmann Center for Jewish Research at the University of Łódź. Head of the Radegast Station Branch of the Museum of Independence Traditions in Łódź. Interests include topics of social memory and World War II history, architecture and education of memorial sites of former concentration and extermination camps. 

Born on December 15, 1925.Unfortunately, nothing is known about his pre-war activities. With his parents Natan (b. 1893) and Sara (b. 1893), he lived at 76 Wschodnia St. before the war. After being resettled in the ghetto, he lived at 45 Limanowskiego St. His name appears on lists of employees of the Registration Office in January 1944.
In the list of employees from the Census Department dated April 15, 1944, the term “philatelic expert” appears next to him. In August 1944, he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and then in October of that year to Kaufering (a sub-camp of Dachau). It has not been possible to determine whether he survived the war.

Historian, assistant professor at the Philip Friedman Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Łódź, author of several publications on the socio-political history of Jews: The anti-Semitic Romanian government of Octavian Goga and Alexandru Cuză in the opinion of the Polish-language press of the Second Polish Republic (1937–1938) (2020), The Zionist Movement in Poland in the Years 1926–1930 (2005) and Synagogues and Prayer Houses in Łódź until 1939. (2000). Scientific editor of source publications on the history of Łódź and the Łódź ghetto, including The Encyclopedia. of the Ghetto. Unfinished project of the archivists from the Łódź ghetto (2014), Monthly Reports of the Łódź Governor, 1938-1939 (4 volumes, 2014), Chronicle of the Łódź ghetto (5 volumes, 2009).

Born February 11, 1890, in Pardubice. He was a well-known Prague industrial chemist and at the same time a social activist. In 1933, he edited the section ‘Wirtschafts-Umschau’ (Economic Review) in the Germanlanguage Zionist journal Selbstwehr, published in Prague. On its pages, he commented on the economic situation in Germany. He also served as president of the Association of Friends of the Jewish University in Jerusalem. 
On October 21, 1941, Wertheimer was deported from Prague to the Łódź ghetto with his wife Irena (b. 1898) and daughters Hanna (b. 1925) and Judit (b. 1927). On May 5, 1942, he was employed at the Department of Statistics. In August, he was deported to Auschwitz, where he probably was murdered there.

Assistant professor at the Filip Friedman Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Łódź. Member of the board of the Polish Association for Jewish Studies. Academically, he is primarily concerned with the history of the Jewish Diaspora in Poland with particular emphasis on the Łódź Ghetto. Academic editor of many source publications, including Chronicles of the Lodz Ghetto and Encyclopedia of the Łódź Ghetto. She has published several diaries written in the ghetto, including those of Rywka Lipszyc and Dawid Sierakowiak.  She is preparing a monograph on daily life in the Łódź Ghetto.

Born in 1897 in Konstantynów. He was educated in yeshivas in Koźminek and Blaszki. He received the title of rabbi. After receiving a secular education, he began working at a public school in Lutomiersk in 1919. He took part in the Polish-Bolshevik war. From 1922 he worked in Łódź as an accountant at the same time he was active in the literary community. Since 1925 he published short stories, humoresques and columns in newspapers in Poland, the USA and Canada. 
He was a member-correspondent of the JIWO, for which he collected materials on the peculiarities of Łódź Yiddish.
In the ghetto, he lived with his wife Sara (b. 1900) and son Samuel (b. 1928) at 9 Urzędnicza St. He worked in the Archives Department, where he wrote for the Chronicle as well as reports and reports on life in the ghetto. He was also a Yiddish teacher and lecturer at a seminar preparing teachers to teach in that language. In 1944 he was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered there.