![View of a barbed-wire fence separating part of the ghetto in Krakow from the rest of the city. [LCID: 73173]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/97ab60d7-96e5-4a72-bdae-ba0cfa948b4b.jpg)
View of a barbed-wire fence separating part of the ghetto in Krakow from the rest of the city. Krakow, Poland, date uncertain.
During the Holocaust, the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of brutally separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities.
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