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Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

Labor in the Clothes Workshop, Lodz Ghetto, Poland, February 1941

The Jews in the Lodz ghetto established and ran over 100 small and medium-sized factories, in which they made a variety of products for the Germans, in return for food rations.  After the deportations of 1942, the Jews in the ghetto saw their labor in the factories as a way to prove their economic viability, and thus hoped to evade deportation.  In August 1944, the ghetto was liquidated and its inhabitants, including the factory workers, were deported.