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| | Featured artifact: Model of the Lodz ghetto |
 | | Leon Jakubowicz, a shoemaker by training and a native of Lodz, began constructing this model of the Lodz ghetto in the spring of 1940, after the ghetto was sealed. |
 | | Jakubowicz's model recreates, on a small scale, the physical appearance of the ghetto, creating the shape of the model to mimic the exact boundaries, streets, and buildings that had a major impact on daily life in the ghetto. |
 | | In the spring of 1944, with the ghetto population still numbering some 75,000 Jews, the Nazis began to liquidate the Lodz ghetto with deportations first to the Chelmno killing center and ultimately, by August, to Auschwitz-Birkenau. |
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