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The Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto (after the Nazi German name for Łódź) was established in February 1940 in Łódź by the German occupying authorities. It was the second largest ghetto on the...
Tarnow. Germany occupied the Polish city of Tarnow in 1939. Deportations from Tarnow began in June 1942, first to the Belzec killing center. Following the June deportations, the Germans forced the surviving Jews in Tarnow, as well as Jews from nearby towns, into a ghetto.
The Kraków Ghetto was one of five major metropolitan Nazi ghettos created by Germany in the new General Government territory during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It was established for the purpose of exploitation, terror, and persecution of local Polish Jews.
Coordinates: 51°47′35″N 19°27′50″E. The Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto (after the Nazi German name for Łódź) was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto in all of German-occupied Europe after the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Imprisonment, forced labor, starvation
Ghettos were established by Nazi Germany in lots of locations across occupied Poland after the German invasion of Poland. Most ghettos were established to imprison around 3 ½ million Polish Jews, for the purpose of persecution and neglect. Here is a partial list of those ghettos.
Aug 2, 2016 · But as the German army conquered territory in Poland and farther east in the early years of World War II, the Germans created ghettos throughout this area; historians estimate that during the war there were more than 1,100 Jewish ghettos. The map below shows the location of these ghettos throughout Europe.
Excerpts from the account of Yehuda Backon deported to Auschwitz from the ghetto in Theresienstadt in December 1943, assigned the prisoner number 168194. After our arrival we were divided into two groups: women and men separately. We, the children, remained in the group with men and the elderly.
