Ghettos


  • The Ghettoization of European Jews: Deportation and Resettlement in the East
  • The Ghettos By Yisrael Gutman
  • The Battles of the Ghettos By Yisrael Gutman
  • The Life of the Ghetto: People and Organizations By Margo Gutstein
  • Self-Help in the Ghetto By Nehemia Polen
  • The Ghettos The Ban on Births in the Shavli Ghetto. Decree On the Establishment of the Budapest Ghetto. Ghettos in Occupied Europe [map]. Ghettos in Poland. The Ghettoization of European Jews: Deportation and Resettlement in the East. The Bialystok Ghetto. The Kovno Ghetto. The Lodz Ghetto. Major Jewish Ghettos. Memories of the Holocaust: Kishinev (Chisinau). Order by Himmler for the Liquidation of the Ghettos of Ostland. Resistance. Terezin (Theresienstadt). The Vilna Ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto
  • The Ghettos of the Holocaust From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Ghettoes Established by Nazis in Poland
  • Ghetto List From ARC The Genuine Action Reinhard Camps Website
  • The Ghetto Slaughters in Stolin, Rubel, and David-Horodok Through the Eyes of a Survivor A letter dated January 11, 1946, describes the details of the murders perpetrated on the Jews of the cities of Stolin, Rubele and David-Horodok. The letter was received from a young man named Michael Nosanchuk by his brother Boris Nosanchuk of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
  • Judenrat Excerpt from interview with Professor Michael Marrus, Dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto, December 12, 1997
  • The Relations Between the Judenrat and the Jewish Police by Aharon Weiss
  • Ghettos in the vicinity of Zmigrod: Dukla: Arbeitslager Arthur Walde, Breslau (working camp). Established on Aug. 15, 1942; liquidated on Nov. 15, 1942. 140 Jew. people imprisoned. They had to work in quarries and to construct the road between Barwinek and Zmigród. The Nazis carried out executions. As the camp was liquidated, the prisoners were taken to the camp of Wola Duchacka near Cracau. - - - Dukla: Arbeitslager Emil Ludwig, Munich (working camp). Established on Aug. 13, 1942; liquidated on Dec. 14, 1942. 170 Jew. people imprisoned. They had to work in quarries and to construct the road between Barwinek and Zmigród. As the camp was liquidated, the prisoners were taken to a camp in Rzeszów. - - - Frysztak Ghetto: Established in 1942, liquidated on Aug. 18, 1942. Inhabited by the Jew. population of Frysztak and by a few families of the III Reich. All together about 1,600 people. They worked in quarries and at the construction of roads. On July 3, 1942 850 people were taken to Warzyce, where they were probably shot. In August the remaining people were taken to Jaslo. - - - Jaslo Ghetto: Inhabited by the Jew. population of Jaslo and the districts of Jaslo and Krosno; among others about 450 people from Jedlicze were taken to the ghetto in July, 1941. The inhabitants carried out clearing-up operations in town. Numerous executions took place. The bodies of the murdered were buried in mass-graves on the cemetery. As the ghetto was liquidated in Aug. or Sept., 1942, a part of the people was shot in the woods of Warzyce, another part (men) was taken to a camp in Przemysl. The remaining inhabitants were deported to the extermination camp Belzec. - - - Jaslo Prison (Deutsche Strafanstalt): Established in Nov. 1939, liquidated in Oct. 1944. Imprisoned were Poles, Russians, Gypsies, Jews, Slovakians, Hungarians, and Germans. Located in the former Court's prison. About 10,000 till 15,000 people passed through the prison. Average 250-300 prisoners, in March, 1943: 380 (330 men and 50 women). In 1944 the entire building was used as prison, and at that time there were about 1,000 people imprisoned. The prisoners were taken to the concentration camps of Auschwitz and Ravensbrück, to working camps in Pustków near Debica, to prisons in Przedzienica, Cracau and Rzeszów, and from mid 1943 on to a newly established camp in Szebnie. Numerous executions were carried out, mainly in the vicinity of Jaslo. (...) On March 6, 1943 the Gestapo shot 33 prisoners on the Jew. cemetery (...) - - - Korczyna Ghetto: Established in Nov. 1941, liquidated on Aug. 12, 1942. About 2,000 inhabitants, who worked at the airport of Krosno. As the ghetto was liquidated, the inhabitants were taken to an unknown place, a part of them was murdered. - - - Nowy Zmigród Ghetto: Established in 1942, liquidated in July, 1942. Inhabited by the Jewish population of NZ and of villages in the vicinity as well as by people from Lodz. All together about 1,300 people. As the ghetto was liquidated, the inhabitants were taken to Halbów, where they were shot. - - - Rymanów Ghetto: During the liquidation of the ghetto in August, 1942, a part of the inhabitants were shot, another part was deported to the ghetto of Cracau and to the extermination camp of Belzec. A small group was taken to Barwinek. - - - (Source: Glówna Komisja Zbrodni Hitlerowskich w Polsce - Rada Ochrony Pomników Walki i Meczenstwa - Obozy hitlerowskie na ziemiach polskich 1939-1945, Warsaw 1979) (translated from Polish in April, 1998)
  • The Ghettos of Belarus-Examples of Genocide From the book Holocaust in Belorussia, 1941-1944
  • The Ghettos From A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust


Baranovichi

Bedzin

  • Bedzin in Her Destruction Excerpts from the book "City of the Dead", Teverski, Tel Aviv, 5707 [1946/47] ) by Dawid Liwer
  • Bedzin From the Encyclopaedia Judaica

Belchatow

Biala Podlaska

Bialystok

Bochnia

Brody

Budapest

  • The Budapest Ghetto Chapter 5 of Childhood in Times of War by Andrew Salamon
  • The Ghetto Chapter 3 of the book Through the Eyes of a Child by Gisele Schwartz-Somlo-Foti

Czestochowa

Dokshitz

Dzina

  • The Dzina Ghetto An Account by Sonia Dreisenstock Czernia of Israel, Translated from the Yiddish by Cy Levine

Grodno

Izbica

  • Izbica Ghetto From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Izbica Translation of "Izbica" chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Polin

Jaworow

Jozefow

  • Jozefow From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Jozefow Bilgorajski From ARC The Genuine Action Reinhard Camps Website

Kielce

  • Kielce From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Kielce Ghetto From ARC The Genuine Action Reinhard Camps Website

Kolomyja

Kovno

Krakow

Krasnystaw

Kutno

  • The Ghetto at Kutno From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Kutno Translation of "Kutno" chapter from Pinkas Hakehillot Polin

Lakhva

Lida

Lodz

Lubartow

  • Lubartow From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Lubartow Ghetto From ARC The Genuine Action Reinhard Camps Website

Lublin

Lvov

  • Lvov From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Lvov Ghetto From ARC The Genuine Action Reinhard Camps Website

Marcinkonys

Miedzyrzec Podlaski

Minsk

Oradea

Piaski

  • Piaski From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team

Pinsk

Piotrkow Trybunalski

Polonnoye

Przemysl

Radom

  • Radom From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Radom Ghetto From ARC The Genuine Action Reinhard Camps Website
  • Radom From Yad Vashem: Pinkas HaKehilot, Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities, Poland Vol. VII

Radomsko

Radzyn

Rawa Ruska

Riga

Rzeszow

  • Rzeszow From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Rzeszow Ghetto From ARC The Genuine Action Reinhard Camps Website

Shavli

Siedlce

Staszow

Stryj

Tarnow

  • Tarnow Ghetto From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Tarnow Ghetto From ARC The Genuine Action Reinhard Camps Website

Terezin (Theresienstadt)

Tluszcz

Tomaszow Mazowiecki

Vilna

Vishnevo

Warsaw

Zamosc

  • Zamosc Ghetto From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Zamosc Ghetto From ARC The Genuine Action Reinhard Camps Website

Zwolen

  • The Zwolen Ghetto From the Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team
  • Zwolen From ARC The Genuine Action Reinhard Camps Website

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