The Łódź Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto established by the Nazis in 1940 in the city of Łódź, Poland. It was one of the largest ghettos in occupied Europe, housing around 200,000 Jews. The ghetto was surrounded by walls and barbed wire, and residents faced severe overcrowding, food shortages, and forced labor. Life in the Łódź Ghetto was marked by hardship and despair. Many inhabitants were deported to extermination camps, while others died from starvation and disease. The ghetto was liquidated in 1944, and only a small number of its residents survived the Holocaust, including notable figures like Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, who led the ghetto's Jewish council.