Surname: Zmudek ( a variation on Zmidek)

First name: Szymon

Father's name: Yakov (Jankiel/Jaker/Jakier all variations , diminuitives)
Marital Status: żonaty - married man
Born: 1873
Town of birth: Chmielnik
Religion: Jewish

Right hand column

Nationality: Polish
Registered: 19th January 1920
Address: Aleksandryjska 15

Hencla-Ruchla: born 1876. Chmielnik

Perla - Laja: born 1896. Chmielnik

Mordka: born 1912. Chmielnik

Szajndla: born 1900. Chmielnik

Hersz-Kiwa: born 1900. Chmielnik (large error in year of birth)

Szprinca: born 1912. Chmielnik

Extract from the Chronicle of the Lodz Ghetto 1941 - 1944

¨Litzmannstadt-Ghetto September 14 1942

The period of September 5 - 12, 1942 will leave indelible memories among the portion of the ghetto´s population on whom fate smiles and who survives the war.
One week, eight days that seem an eternity.
Even now it is difficult to grasp what has occurred. An elemental force has passed through the ghetto and swept away some 15,000 people (no one knows the exact number yet ) and life appears to have resumed its former course.
In his speech of September 4, 1942 the Chairman announced that, by order of the authorities, about 25,000 Jews under the age of 10 and over 65 must be resettled out of the ghetto. Those were the instructions received by the Resettlement Commission....The work consisted of copying out the names and the exact ages on families on separate cards, going through the 19 volumes of the population records, building by building, apartment by apartment.....
In accordance with the Chairman´s proclamation on the 4th of this month , pedestrian traffic after 5pm has been suspended until further notice since the 5th of this month, and it was then the Jewish police´s action to round up all persons subject to resettlement began. .... It was said that had this action encountered any difficulties or resistance, the German authorities would have stepped in.
In point of fact, the operation proceeded as follows - block after block was surrounded by the Jewish police and then each building surrounded by a host of police and Jewish firemen and entered by a representative of the authorities (Gestapo). A shot was fired as the signal to assemble, and then all the residents of a given building were assembled in the courtyard, arranged in two rows, and subjected to inspection by representatives of the authorities. In the meantime, the jewish police were searching the apartments and bringing out anyone who had been hiding or people who were ill ...... The deportees and those who were to remain were separated into two groups. Those selected for resettlement were sent by wagons to the assembly points.
When the wagons were being loaded there were incidents in which people .... attempted to join the group that was remaining here; retribution was very swift in such cases (such people were shot without warning ), and took place right before the eyes of the assembled tenants of a building.
Incidentally, the populance´s strange reaction to the recent events is noteworthy. There is not the slightest doubt that this was a profound and terrible shock, and yet one must wonder at the indifference shown by those - apart from the ones who were not directly affected and who returned to normal life at once - from who loved ones had been taken. . It would seem that the events of recent days would have immersed the entire population of the ghetto in mourning for a long time to come, and yet right after the incidents, and even during the resettlement action, the populance was obsessed with everyday concerns - getting bread, rations and so forth - and often went from immediate personal tradegy right back into daily life. Is this some sort of numbing of the nerves, an indifference, or a symptom of an illness that manifests itself in atrophied emotional reactions ?..... Naturally, here and there, there are some mothers weeping in a corner for a child or children shipped from the ghetto, but, as a whole, the mood of the ghetto does not reflect last week´s terrible ordeal.
Sad but true.¨

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15,681 people, including 5862 children under the age of 10, were deported from the ghetto between September 1 and 12. They were all murdered in the death camp in Chelmno-nad-Nerem.
(lodz-ghetto.com)

Born: 20/12/1911:
Address: Kelm 29 : Previous address Bismark str. 25;
Occupation: Handelsangestellter - Commercial or trade employee
Source Document 3: List of residents at Kelm Str. No. 29
Mordka &Frajda on the list. Dwojra and Sura-Fajda missing.

Frajda Propst:
Born 26/3/1909:
Address: Kelm 29 3 : Previous address Bismark str. 25;
Occupation: Hausfrau
Source Document:: Lodz-Names

Born: 07/12/1937
Aged: 3
Address:Block No A 23, Kelm 29
Source Document 1: List of residents Block A23 Kelm strasse No. 29 (6714771)

Born: 1/12/1937
Address: Kelm 29 3 : Previous address Bismarkstr 25;
Source Document 2: List of residents at Kelm Str. No. 29
Date of deportation 12/9/1942
Last column under "Bemerkungen" ( Remarks) AUSG + date means Deportation to Chełmno.

Source Document 2: List of residents at Kelm Strt. No. 29
Died: 14/9/1942 - Sura's name is crossed out on the list and 'GEST 14/9/42' written in right hand column indicating the date she died.

Maiden name: Sura Fajga Pik
Born: 11/10/1865
Occupation: Hausfrau
Address: Kelm 29 3 : Previous address Bismark str. 25;
Source Document: Lodz-Names

USHMM 7450147

Born: 1912
Age: 28
Address: Block No B17, Siegfried Str. 52 Flat 7
Also living in the same flat Motel Davidsojn, born 1910, Aged 30
Source Document 1: List of residents (162.jpg) 1940