List of ghetto Jews created by Nazi Germany between 1939 and 1945 , in the framework of the Second World War . The ghettos were created by Nazi Germany and its allies for the purpose of isolating and controlling the Jewish population in the territories they controlled. The vast majority of them were located in Eastern Europe .
Ghetto | Location | Population | Functioning | Deported to |
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Gueto of Andrychów | Poland | 500 | 1942-1943. | Auschwitz |
Gueto of Baranovichi | Belarus (until 1939 Poland) | 15,000 | 1941-1943 | |
Ghetto of Będzin | Poland | 30,000 | 1942-1943. | Auschwitz |
Ghetto of Bełchatów | Poland | |||
Gueto of Berdychiv | Ukraine | |||
Ghetto of Bershad | Ukraine | |||
Gueto of Beuthen | Germany (now Poland) | |||
Ghetto of Białystok | Belarus (until 1939 Poland) | 50,000 | 1941-1943 | Treblinka |
Ghetto of Brest | Belarus (until 1939, Poland) | 1941-1942 | ||
Ghetto of Budapest | Hungary | 70,000 | 1944-1945 | |
Ghetto of Cluj-Napoca | Romania | 18,000 | 1944 | Auschwitz |
Ghetto of Krakow | Poland | 30,000 | 1941-1943 | Majdanek - Auschwitz |
Ghetto of Częstochowa | Poland | 48,000 | 1941-1943 | Treblinka |
Ghetto of Chortkiv | Ukraine (until 1939, Poland) | Belzec | ||
Gueto of Drohobych | Ukraine (until 1939, Poland) | 1941-1943 | ||
Ghetto of Daugavpils | Latvia | 26,000 | 1941-1943 | Kaiserwald |
Ghetto of Dziatłava | Poland (now Belarus) | 1941-1942 | ||
Ghetto of Grodno | Belarus | 1941-1943 | Treblinka - Auschwitz | |
Ghetto of Kaunas | Lithuania | 40,000 | 1941-1943 | Ponary |
Ghetto of Kielce | Poland | |||
Ghetto of Kletsk | Belarus (until 1939, Poland) | 2,000 | ||
Gueto of Lakhva | Belarus (until 1939, Poland) | 2,350 | 1941-1942 | |
Ghetto of Lodz | Poland | 204,000 | 1941-1944 | Chelmno - Auschwitz |
Gueto of Leópolis | Ukraine (until 1939, Poland) | 200,000 | 1941-1944 | Belzec |
Ghetto of Lubartów | Poland | 1941-1942 | Belzec - Treblinka | |
Ghetto of Lublin | Poland | 34,000 | 1941-1943 | Belzec |
Gueto of Marcinkonys | Lithuania (until 1939, Poland) | |||
Ghetto of Medzhybizh | Ukraine | |||
Ghetto of Międzyrzec Podlaski | Poland | 20,000 | 1940-1943 | |
Ghetto of Minsk | Belarus | 100,000 | 1941-1943 | Sobibor |
Ghetto of Mińsk Mazowiecki | Poland | |||
Ghetto of Otwock | Poland | |||
Ghetto of Piaseczno | Poland | |||
Ghetto of Piotrków Trybunalski | Poland | 25,000 | 1939-1944 | Treblinka |
Ghetto of Pinsk | Belarus | 22,000 | 1941-1943 | |
Ghetto of Przemysl | Poland | 22,000 | ||
Gueto of Radomsko | Poland | |||
Ghetto of Riga | Latvia | 30,000 | 1941-1943 | Ponary - Auschwitz |
Ghetto of Siedlce | Poland | |||
Ghetto of Sosnowiec | Poland | 45,000 | 1942-1943. | Auschwitz |
Ghetto of Tarnow | Poland | 25,000 | 1942-1943. | Belzec |
Ghetto of Tłuszcz | Poland | |||
Ghetto of Tomaszów Mazowiecki | Poland | |||
Ghetto of Theresienstadt | Bohemia and Moravia (now the Czech Republic) | 144,000 | 1941-1945 | |
Gueto of Trochenbrod | Ukraine (until 1939, Poland) | |||
Ghetto of Warsaw | Poland | 300,000 | 1940-1943 | Treblinka |
Ghetto of Vilna | Poland (now Lithuania) | 60,000 | 1941-1943 | |
Ghetto of Vitebsk | Belarus | 16,000 | 1941 |