Lodz Ghetto coins donated to Jewish Museum in New York, 1965 “Der Aelteste der Juden in Litzmannstadt” (The Oldest of the Jews in Litzmannstadt) During the World War 1939-1945 the words “concentration camp” became words of fear. Unlike prisoner-of-war camps and internment camps which gave at least some recognition of the rules of war, concentration camps were slave labor and death camps, with the emphasis on death. Other than political prisoners, the bulk of the concentration camp inmates was comprised of races that the rulers of Germany seemed determined to eradi- cate, with the Jews in first place. Six million died in these camps, the result of starvation, brutality, shooting…