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| Websites on the ghettos built by the nazis to concentrate and eventually deport the Jewish people. |
| 1 | Biala Podlaska [Edit] | Ghettos |
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| 2 | Bialystok [Edit] | Ghettos |
| On August 1th, 1941 the 50,000 Jewish residents of the town Bialystok were segregated into a closed ghetto. Every Jew in the 15-65 age group was forced to work and the Germans meted out physical punishment, including death sentences to anyone attempting to avoid or resist forced labour. There were private factories in the Ghetto, owned by a German industrialist, Oskar Stefen. In July 1943 Jewish freedom fighters in the Ghetto started a revolt which lasted till August 16, 1943 when the Germans liquidated the Ghetto and all resistance fighters were killed. |
| 3 | Bialystok ghetto [Edit] | Ghettos |
|  On August 1, 1941 some 50,000 Jews were segregated into a closed Ghetto. Every Jew in the 15-65 age group was forced to work and the Germans meted out physical punishment, including death sentences to anyone attempting to avoid or resist forced labour. There were private factories in the Ghetto, owned by a German industrialist, Oskar Stefen. In July 1943 Jewish freedom fighters in the Ghetto started a revolt which lasted till August 16, 1943 when the Germans liquidated the Ghetto and all resistance fighters were killed. |
| 4 | Bochnia [Edit] | Ghettos |
|  On 1 December 1939, the edict requiring Jews to wear a white armband bearing a blue Star of David had been introduced, and in May 1940 an enormous “fine” of 3 million zloty was demanded from the Jewish population. 200-300 young Jews were sent to the Pustkow labour camp, near Debica, in mid 1940, and at the end of that year deportation of young Jewish men to the labour camp at Klaj, 12 km west of Bochnia, began. |
| 5 | Brody [Edit] | Ghettos |
|  From September 1939 until 1 July 1941 the town was under Soviet occupation. At that time some Jews collaborated with the Soviets and others, mainly wealthy people, were prosecuted and deported to Siberia. Before the German army entered the town, Brody was bombed for eight days. Many houses were completely destroyed and the Soviet army evacuated the town in panic. German units captured the town on 1 July 1941 and were warmly welcomed by the local Ukrainian population. From the beginning of the occupation the Jewish apartments were plundered by German soldiers and their Ukrainian collaborators. |
| 6 | Ghetto Bochnia [Edit] | Ghettos |
| Ghetto Bochnia was formed between March to April 1941. A certain section of down town Bochnia, near the railway station, was designated for Jewish dwelling. The so called "Jewish district" included Kowalska St. Solna Gora, Niecala, Leonarda St. and other neighboring streets all the way to Krzeczowska St. Most of the buildings within the ghetto were one floor houses. There were only a few two or even three floor buildings. The two floor Judenrat building, was located on Niecala at the Kowalska intersection. The Jews who resided outside the designated area had to move into the ghetto and Poles who resided in the designated ghetto area had to move out. To comply with the new rules Jews who owned homes in the "Aryan" section of Bochnia and had to move into the ghetto, exchanged houses with Poles who were trying to get out. |
| 7 | Ghetto of Czestochowa [Edit] | Ghettos |
|  Small webpage with general information on the Ghetto. The website contains a number of photographs en maps. |
| 8 | Ghetto of Kovno [Edit] | Ghettos |
|  Website with info on the head of the Judenrat, escapes from the ghetto, the destination of the ghetto after its destruction. |
| 9 | Ghetto of Siedlce [Edit] | Ghettos |
|  Webpage with general information on the ghetto of Siedlce and life in the ghetto. The website contains maps and photographs. |
| 10 | Grodno [Edit] | Ghettos |
|  On 2 November 1942, the Ghettos I and II in Grodno were completely sealed off. In the morning the workers from Ghetto II were held up at the gate and suddenly the commandants of the two ghettos, Kurt Wiese (Ghetto I) and Otto Strebelow (Ghetto II), appeared and began shooting at the workers indiscriminately. 12 Jews were killed, forty were wounded, and the others fled wildly in panic. It was the first time that Grodno’s Jews had experienced sudden mass murder, perpetrated without warning. In the evening, the news spread through the city that the Jews from the neighbouring towns had been transported to the Kielbasin camp. The sealing of the two ghettos was accompanied by show-hangings and acts of group murder. Punitive executions were not only meted out for trying to escape. The fate of anyone caught smuggling food into the ghetto was also sealed. Shooting of Jews who were found carrying bread or other food became routine. About two weeks after the Jews in the neighbouring towns were taken to Kielbasin, the Germans began liquidating Ghetto II. First, however, they transferred those with useful professions from Ghetto II to Ghetto I. The first deportation from Ghetto II took place on 15 November 1942. The Jews were told that they were being sent to work, and, according to the testimony of Grodno survivors who reached Bialystok in 1943, the Judenrat and the other Jews in the ghetto believed this tale. Therefore, very few tried to hide. The deportees reached Auschwitz on 18 November, and before they were murdered they were given prepared postcards on which a sentence in German was printed: "Being treated well, we are working and everything is fine". They were ordered to sign the postcards and address them to their relatives in Grodno. The first deportation was followed by a brief lull in Ghetto II. But a few days later, on 21 November, everyone still in the ghetto was deported to Auschwitz. There is some uncertainty regarding the precise number of deportees, but it is probable that at least 4,000 inhabitants of the ghetto - those remaining in Ghetto II after the transfer of a similar number of Jews to Ghetto I - perished in Auschwitz as a result of these "actions". |
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