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The largest
ghetto was in Warsaw, which held up to 480,000 Jews and was
liquidated in May 1943, after massive deportations to Treblinka in
the summer of 1942 and two uprisings in January and April of 1943.
The Lodz ghetto contained 160,000 Jews at its peak. This ghetto was
liquidated gradually: in a first wave of deportations to Chelmno
between January and May of 1942, many subsequent deportations to
Chelmno and other camps, and final liquidation on September 1, 1944.
The Lvov ghetto contained nearly 150,000 Jews when established in
November 1941; its last few thousand inhabitants were removed in
June 1943 after the rest had been deported to their deaths in Belzec
and Janowska. The Minsk ghetto held 100,000 Jews from this city and
the surrounding towns and villages. The Minsk ghetto was liquidated
on October 21, 1943, after most of its Jewish inhabitants had been
shot or deported to their deaths in Sobibor. In Vilna, most of the
57,000 Jews who initially inhabited the ghetto were shot to death in
the nearby pits of Ponar. In the wake of a failed Vilna ghetto
uprising, the last few thousand Jews were sent to camps in Estonia
on September 23, 1943. The Bialystok ghetto, which originally
contained 50,000 Jews, was liquidated on August 16, 1943, following
five days of fighting by the Jewish underground. |
