Lecture by Rabbi Sacha Pecaric


January 24, 2012, 7 p.m.
Museum of the City of Lodz (15 Ogrodowa Street)
Lecture by Rabbi Sacha Pecaric from New York:
The Book of Psalms - Dialogue of Christianity and Judaism. What do we share, what makes us different?

70th anniversary of the deportation Western Jews to the Litzmanstadt Ghetto

One of the lesser-known moments in the history of the Litzmannstadt ghetto was the tragic fate of 19 953 Jews from Western Europe, brought to the ghetto in the autumn of 1941. They came from middle-class circles in Berlin, Vienna, Prague, Emden, Hamburg, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Luxembourg. The deportation was the result of the Nazi policy of "cleansing" the Third Reich and occupied territories of Jews. The reason for that action was an attempt to hide the cruelty committed against Jews from the German people.