TY - JOUR TI - The Picture of Litzmannstadt Ghetto in the Light of Posters. A Poster as a Communication Medium AU - Olszewska, Izabela TI - The Picture of Litzmannstadt Ghetto in the Light of Posters. A Poster as a Communication Medium AB - The author of the article analyses the image of Jewish ghetto in Lodz during the WWII in the light of announcements published and distributed within the ghetto. The analysis covered 322 prints in total, which were distributed between May 1941 and June 1944. During the German occupation the announcements were the basic source of information about the applicable rules and organization of life in the Jewish ghettos in relation to all their dimensions: social, religious, cultural, economic and professional. From this short, formal and official texts the author reconstructs the picture of everyday life of the Jewish community closed in the ghetto. The content of the announcements is not only a valuable source of information about the historical truth of that period, but also an unique case study of the way and scope of communication under such extreme and special conditions like life in the Jewish ghetto in occupied Poland and about the functions that the announcements fulfilled as a medium of public communication.  VL - 2018 IS - Volume 61, Issue 4 (236) PY - 2018 SN - 0555-0025 C1 - 2299-6362 SP - 793 EP - 806 DO - 10.4467/22996362PZ.18.046.10404 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/zeszyty-prasoznawcze/article/das-bild-von-litzmannstadt-getto-im-lichte-der-anschlagzettel-anschlagzettel-als-kommunikationsmedium KW - communication during the WWII KW - social functions of the media KW - fugitive prints