List of Nazi-era ghettos

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Ghettos established by Nazi Germany in which Jews were confined, and later shipped to Nazi concentration camps.
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Jews on selection ramp at Auschwitz, May, 1944
Main article: Ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe

This article is a partial list of selected Jewish ghettos created by the Nazis for the purpose of isolating, exploiting and finally, eradicating Jewish population (and sometimes Gypsies) on territories they controlled. Most of the prominent ghettos listed here were set up by the Third Reich and its allies in the course of World War II. In total, according to USHMM archives, "The Germans established at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone." Therefore, the examples are intended only to illustrate their scope across Eastern and Western Europe.[1]

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[edit] In Europe

[edit] German-occupied Poland

Main article: Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland

Following the 1939 Invasion of Poland, the new ghetto system had been imposed by Nazi Germany roughly between October 1939 and July 1942 in order to confine Poland's Jewish population of 3.5 million for the purpose of persecution, terror, and exploitation.[2] The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest ghetto in all of Nazi occupied Europe, with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 1.3 square miles (3.4 km2), or 7.2 persons per room.[3] The Łódź Ghetto was the second largest, holding about 160,000 inmates.[4]

A more complete list of over 260 ghettos with approximate number of prisoners, date of creation and liquidation, as well as known deportation route to Extermination camp, is available at Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland.

[edit] Other occupied countries

[edit] Outside Europe

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ^ Types of Ghettos. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C.
  2. ^ The statistical data compiled on the basis of "Glossary of 2,077 Jewish towns in Poland" by Virtual Shtetl Museum of the History of the Polish Jews  (English), as well as "Getta Żydowskie," by Gedeon,  (Polish) and "Ghetto List" by Michael Peters at www.deathcamps.org/occupation/ghettolist.htm  (English). Accessed June 21, 2011.
  3. ^ Warsaw Ghetto, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Washington, D.C.
  4. ^ Ghettos, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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