![]() ![]() She said, ‘What! People are here?’ ‘Yes,’ they said, ‘we received an allocation and are living here.’ And then my mother went out into the street, walked up and down, and talked to herself: ‘What shall I do now? Where shall I go with the children? There remains nothing else for us than to commit suicide.’ The people heard this, called her over and said: ‘Please, listen. When my mother entered the flat that had been allocated to her it was already occupied. Words of Estera Frenkiel: In Lodz, it was in the Lodz newspaper that a ghetto for Jews was being set up and that the Jews must leave town and move into the ghetto, and the streets were listed according to the dates by which they had to leave their flats and move to the ghetto. But now life for the Frenkiels - and all the other Jews of Lodz - was about to get even worse. She and her family had already suffered persecution from the moment the Germans first arrived, back in September 1939. Laurence Rees: In early 1940, Estera Frenkiel was a teenage Jewish girl living in Lodz in Poland. ![]()
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