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Milk Ration Card of a Jewish Infant Girl Who Was Murdered in the Łódź Ghetto - KARTA MLECZNA – Przełożony Starszeństwa Żydów w Litzmannstadt – Milk Ration Card Belonging to a Jewish Girl Who Was Murdered in the Łódź Ghetto – issued by the Chairman of the Council of Elders of the Jews in Litzmannstadt (Łódź Ghetto), under the Łódź Ghetto administration headed by Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. Card No. 734 (faded). Milk ration coupon card issued for the use of a young girl named Wilhelm Johanna (Johanna Wilhelm), who was born in 1937. Johanna was only about four years old when the card was issued in 1941. The residential address details were altered, indicating that the family had moved: the first address recorded was Schneider (Krawiec) 19/4 (Schneider / Krawiec Street 19, Apartment 4), beneath which the new address was entered: Riemert 27 (Riemert Street 27). In the sections relating to medical instructions (Dyspozycje Lekarskie), approvals and medical directives were entered in ink and by means of numerical stamps (582, 514), as well as pencil notations such as 471/215, 802/214, and 1/8, confirming her entitlement to receive a daily ration of milk at the distribution points. The coupons appear on the reverse of the card. Some of the coupons have been used. The name of Johanna Wilhelm appears in the Yad Vashem Names Database, where all the details concerning her correspond with those appearing on the present card. According to the record there as well, she was born in 1937. Before World War II she lived in Łódź, Poland, and during the war she was in the Łódź Ghetto. Based on the list of Łódź Ghetto residents from 1940–1944, she was most probably murdered in the Holocaust. The Yad Vashem record also notes that her family initially lived at SCHNEIDER GASSE 19 and, during the war, moved to RIEMER GASSE, ul. Rymarska 27, FLAT 2. See Yad Vashem Names Database, record No. 4666313. Size: 15×12 cm. Stains. Good condition.