The Final Days of the Lodz ghetto - the Unknown Diarist

From September 1942 to the beginning of June 1944, there were no deportations from the Lodz ghetto. However, following the start of a Soviet sweep through eastern Poland, the Germans reopened the Chelmno death camp on June 23, 1944, and the liquidation of the Jews of Lodz resumed.
Within three weeks, ten transports with 7,176 Jews had been sent from Lodz to the newly reactivated death camp.
But, with the Red Army rapidly approaching, Chelmno proved to be too slow and inefficient in murdering for the desperate Germans and, as they worked out the logistics of sending the Jews of Lodz to Auschwitz, a more resourceful extermination camp, the deportations paused.
On August 7, 1994, with the details in place, the liquidation of the Lodz ghetto recommenced, and the fates of the Jews imprisoned in the Lodz ghetto were sealed - by the end of the month, about 70,000 had been sent to Auschwitz.
From Yad Vashem - the Unknown Diarist: An anonymous diary was kept by a Lodz ghetto inhabitant in four languages - Polish, English, Yiddish and Hebrew - written in the margins of the French novel “The Truly Rich, Les Vrais Riches”.
Beginning in May 1944 and ending in August of that year, the diary is short but intense. Written by a young man who never gives his name; Yad Vashem calls him the “Unknown Diarist”.
Being aware of the war's progress, the diarist appears to have been connected to circles in the ghetto that had access to a radio or newspapers.
There are theories as to why he wrote in different languages - he may have used Hebrew when he didn't want his younger 12-year-old sister to understand. His English is very flowery and formal. The entries in Yiddish and Polish, the languages he seemingly spoke most fluently, are the most uninhibited.
Apparently, the diarist took the diary with him to Auschwitz, where he was murdered, as it was found there after the war.
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