Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team

 

Ghettos


 

Introduction to the Ghettos of the Holocaust

 

  Jewish Ghettos

  The Judenrat

  Judenrat Leaders

  Prominent Jews

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Images from the Vilnius [Vilna] Ghetto

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An order confiscating valuables from Jews in the Vilnius ghetto.
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Arie Farber and Kolya Sanin, two of the Sonderkommando at the Ponary extermination site, who afterwards escaped and joined the partisans.
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August Hering was the head of the Sonderkommando EK3a, Polizei Sipo in Vilna from January to June 1942
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Berl Szerszenewski at the head of the stairs leading to the headquarters of the FPO (United Partisans Organization) in the Vilnius ghetto
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Bodies left to rot at Ponary
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Building used as a prison from which the Jews of the Vilnius ghetto were deported to the Ponary mass extermination site.
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Chaim Lazar, a Jewish partisan from Vilna
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Corpses exhumed from a mass grave at Ponary outside of Vilna
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Franz Murer became known as the Butcher of the Vilna Ghetto
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German officers inspecting documents at one of the gates in the Vilna ghetto
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German soldiers hanging two Jews in the Vilna ghetto.
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Jewish children in an orphanage operated by the Jewish council of the Vilna ghetto
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Sources:

Holocaust Historical Society

Yad Vashem

USHMM

Private collections

 

 

 

Copyright: Carmelo Lisciotto  H.E.A.R.T 2010

 

 

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