Category «Jewish ghettos under Nazi»

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (in German : Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto , Polish : Powstanie w getcie warszawskim ; Yiddish : אויפֿשטאַנד אין וואַרשעווער געטאָ) was the revolt of the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto when German troops began the second mass deportation to Concentration camps andextermination during World War II . It occurred between …

Lodz Ghetto

The ghetto of Lodz (in German , Litzmannstadt ) was established by the Nazis in Poland occupied, between 19 and 25 January 1940. [ citation needed ] It was created by Hans Frank , Governor General German for Poland. It was the second ghetto largest after that of Warsaw . It was created to bring …

Riga Ghetto

The Riga ghetto covered a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a quarter of Riga , the capital of Latvia , designated by the Nazis to concentrate the Jewsof Latvia, and subsequently to other deportees from Germany , during World War II . On October 25, 1941 , the Nazis moved all Jews from and around …

Trochinbrod

Trochinbrod was a Jewish city situated in what is now considered the western part of Ukraine , although it was once part of Poland , 30 kilometers northwest of Lutsk . She was also known as Sofievka or Zofiowka , in Polish, on behalf of Sofia, a Russian princess who ceded her lands to the …

Judenrat

Judenrat (pl. Judenräte ) is the name given in German , councils Jewish government of the ghettos established by the Nazis in various places, especially in the territory of the General Government of Poland , the part of Poland occupied but not annexed By Germany . They had different names according to the Judenrat concrete …

Kaunas Ghetto

The Ghetto Kovno or Kaunas ( Konzentrationslager Kauen (KZ) in German and Kauno Getas in Lithuanian ) was a ghetto built in Kaunas in January , Lithuanian SSR during the Nazi occupation in the Soviet Union . As in other states occupied by the authorities of the Third Reich , this ghetto is part of …

Ghetto of Krakow

The ghetto Jew from Krakow was one of the five major ghettos created by the Nazis in the General Government , during its occupation of Poland in World War II . It separated people capable of working from those considered worthy of execution. Before the war, Krakow had been an influential cultural center for the …

Cluj-Napoca Ghetto

History On May 3, 1944, the ghettoization of Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvar) began, which was completed in one week. That was less than two months after the Nazis launched Operation Margarette on March 19 , by which the Wehrmacht put Hungary under puppet rule . The Jews were concentrated in the Iris brick factory in the northern …

Ghetto of Brest

The ghetto of Brest , was a ghetto established by the Nazis in Soviet Belarus shortly after the German invasion of 1941, during World War II , to concentrate the population Jewish . History Brest is a Belarusian city located near the present border with Poland . The city comprised until 1921 of Russia , …

Białystok Ghetto

The Germans established the Bialystok ghetto in 1941 as a concentration camp population Jewish resident of the city Polish namesake , within the framework of the Second World War . It was disbanded in 1943 after the murder or deportation of prisoners by the forces German occupation. Historical antecedents View of the center of Białystok …

Baranovichi Ghetto

The Germans established a ghetto Baranovichi in 1941 as a concentration camp population Jewish survivor of the slaughter of Baranovichi , during World War II . History In the autumn of 1941 , when the Germans launched the invasion of the Soviet Union , they arrived in the Polish-Belorussian city of Baranovichi ( Polish : …