View of a barbed-wire fence separating part of the ghetto in Krakow from the rest of the city. [LCID: 73173]
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Barbed-wire fence separating the Krakow ghetto from the rest of the city

View of a barbed-wire fence separating part of the ghetto in Krakow from the rest of the city. Krakow, Poland, date uncertain.

During the Holocaust, the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of brutally separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated Jews from the non-Jewish population and from other Jewish communities.


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