Chelation therapy with 2,3-dimercaptopropane-1-sulfonate (DMPS) has been used to treat acute and chronic heavy metal poisoning. It is thought to work by forming an insoluble complex with the metal that is firmly bound to intracellular sites.
In every Polish city, the ghettos were overcrowded. Jews were transferred from the other neighborhoods in the city, and in many cases from nearby villages, to housing there, while the non-Jewish inhabitants of the neighborhood were forced to move to another area. These transfers caused great overcrowding from the outset.
Songs of the Lodz Ghetto The Lodz Ghetto. The Lodz ghetto was established in the summer of 1940. The ghettoâs population fluctuated between 230,000 and 250,000 people. In addition, 5,000 Gypsies (Roma) from Austria were deported to the Lodz ghetto in November 1941. The Lodz ghetto was the last ghetto in Poland to be liquidated, which began in the summer of 1944. The Russian army liberated the ghetto in January 1945. When the Soviets liberated the area they found 877 Jews that had been left behind by the Nazis to carry out clean-up operations. . The Lodz ghetto became a large labor camp with workshops and factories.