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Ghettos

Starting in 1939, the Nazis concentrated Jewish populations in ghettos during the Holocaust (1933–1945). Jews were separated from non-Jews into these ghettos, where living conditions were miserable. The vast majority of ghetto inhabitants died from disease, starvation, shooting, or deportation to killing centers. Explore more content related to the over 1,000 ghettos established by the Nazis and collaborators to isolate Jews during the Holocaust. 

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A small child with light skin tone lays in a hospital bed against a large pillow. They appear to wear a hospital gown and have a dressing wrapped around their head and under their chin. The sides of the hospital bed have fencing to prevent the child from rolling out.
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Kovno ghetto hospital
A severely emaciated child with medium-light skin tone sitting on a street eating while people walk around them. The child is wearing a heavy jacket and worn slippers with bare legs.
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A destitute child in the Warsaw ghetto
A large group of children gather in a dirt street. One adult with dark skin tone stands to one side looking at the group. The arm of another adult can be seen on the left side of the photograph.
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A group of children assembled for deportation to Chełmno
A group of five children standing in front of a fence. All of them are wearing heavy outerwear and caps. The child in the center is holding the youngest in their arms.
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A group of children in the Kovno ghetto
A man with short dark hair and light skin tone stands at attention in a policeman’s uniform. A Star of David patch is pinned to the right of his policeman's badge.
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A Jewish policeman in the Theresienstadt ghetto
A woman stands wearing multiple layers of clothing in a crowd. She appears to be middle-aged with light skin tone. Her hair is covered. Her hands are stretched out in front of her while she calls out to someone out of frame.
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A Jewish woman during a deportation from the Warsaw ghetto
Abraham Lewent [LCID: 2724]
ID Card
Abraham Lewent
Abraham Lewent [LCID: alw0255m]
Oral History
Abraham Lewent describes conditions in the Warsaw ghetto
Abraham Lewent [LCID: alh0257m]
Oral History
Abraham Lewent describes hiding during a raid in which his mother and sisters were seized for deportation from Warsaw to Treblinka
Abraham Lewent [LCID: alc0256m]
Oral History
Abraham Lewent describes hunger and death in the Warsaw ghetto
Adam Czerniakow, chairman of the Jewish council in Warsaw [LCID: dfj0757w]
Film
Adam Czerniakow, chairman of the Jewish council in Warsaw
A paper tag with two holes punched in the top. A piece of string is looped through the right hole. Large numbers ‘395’ are printed on the right, with a box labeled ‘transport’ on the left. The bottom has a space for a name. ‘Winternitz, Alice’ is handwritten in faded ink.
Artifact
Alice (Lisl) Winternitz's luggage tag
Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman [LCID: ldh0691f]
Oral History
Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman describes going into hiding in June 1942 during roundups in the Slonim ghetto
Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman [LCID: lde0688f]
Oral History
Alisa (Lisa) Nussbaum Derman describes her escape from Slonim during a roundup in 1941
Portrait of an elderly Jewish woman wearing a Jewish badge in the Olkusz ghetto. [LCID: 18614]
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An elderly Jewish woman wearing the compulsory Jewish badge
An emaciated woman with medium-length light hair and medium skin tone stands in front of a wall selling armbands with a six-pointed star. She is wearing a coat that has one of the bands around the end of the sleeve. She carries several that have already been sewn together in a loop in her left hand with more around her neck. She has several unsewn armbands hung from her waistband.
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An emaciated woman selling Star of David armbands

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