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Holocaust & POWs

Ghettos in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus

Ghettos for Jews living in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus were established as soon as the areas were occupied by the Wehrmacht. People were concentrated in walled-off parts of various cities, where they worked as slave laborers, were killed or awaited transport to concentration camps or death camps. Imagery coverage ghettos in seven cities illustrate the size and development of these areas:

• The Warsaw Ghetto, Poland
• The Lodz Ghetto, Poland
• The Bialystok Ghetto, Poland
• The Kovno Ghetto, Kaunas Lithuania
• The Siauliai Ghetto, Lithuania
• The Minsk Ghetto, Belarus
• The Grodno Ghetto, Belarus

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