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August 30, 2024

Inflation in the Lodz Ghetto

Eighty years after its liquidation.

It might seem strange to use economics to study the Holocaust, but that is precisely what Joshua Blustein has tried to do, and his research helps us understand better the dimensions of this tragedy. At the link below, you can find an interactive timeline of inflation in the Lodz Ghetto, whose residents were shipped off to their deaths 80 years ago yesterday:

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