Ghettostadt: Lódz and the Making of a Nazi City

Under the Third Reich, Nazi Germany undertook an unprecedented effort to refashion the city of Lódz. Home to prewar Poland's second most populous Jewish community, this was to become a German city of enchantment-a modern, clean, and orderly showcase of urban planning and the arts. Central to the undertaking, however, was a crime of unparalleled dimension: the ghettoization, exploitation, and annihilation of the city's entire Jewish population.