"Besides the hard work [my mother] does in the workshop, she gets a bit more work from a woman who makes undergarments. My mother's face looks terrible. She walks like a shadow from so much work... I always see her bent over the sewing machine."
- "Diary of a youth in the ghetto," March 11, 1942
During residents' first year of confinement in the Lodz Ghetto, the Nazis permitted them to bake matzos. In the following years, Jewish traditions and cultural practices were restricted or wholly eliminated, and the Nazis pushed residents to produce goods for markets outside of the ghetto.