Healthgrades Editorial Staff. Occipital neuralgia is a disorder in which a problem with the occipital nerve in the back of the skull causes pain between the back of the head and the scalp, as well as pain, tingling, numbness, weakness, and possible damage to the nerves and muscles in the back of the neck.
This was originally an Italian word for small areas in Italian towns, where Jews were compelled to live exclusively. The first ghetto was set up by Pope Paul IV, in Rome, in 1555.
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.