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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Jewish officials of the Vilna ghetto are seated in the audience at a sporting event
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Located on Ulica Stara (Old Street), outside the Vilna ghetto, this building was used as a safe house by the ghetto resistance. Vilna, after July 1944
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One of the gates in the Vilna Ghetto
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Photos of captured SS-Hauptscharfuhrer Martin Weiss was in charge of the killing units at Ponary
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Police at the gate of the Vilna ghetto
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Post war photo of the ruins of Szklana St in the Vilna ghetto
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Ruins of the Vilna Ghetto
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Ruins of the YIVO building in Vilnius
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Smashed gravestones in the Jewish cemetary in Vilna
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The bodies of children who were murdered at the Ponary mass extermination site near Vilnius.
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The buildings housing the guards stationed at the Ponary mass extermination site near Vilnius
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The door of Cell No. 2 in the Vilnius ghetto prison
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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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