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A 1920s map by sociologist Frederic M. Thrasher placed the Polish and Bohemian enclaves throughout the entire West Side, including the Lower West Side near Halsted Street; Germans occupied the northern lakefront, with Jewish people settling north of Madison Street and also along the southern lakefront.
Chicago’s German Jewish community founded several institutions including Michael Reese Hospital, The Drexel Home for Aged Jews in the Woodlawn neighborhood, and The Standard Club (an exclusive private club located in the Loop).
Contains list of c. 200,000 names of individuals interned in the Lodz ghetto. Entries include sex, birthdate, occupation, address and notes from the German lists. The book contains a summary about the history of the Lodz ghetto.
List of ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe. The World War II ghettos established by Nazi Germany in which Jews were confined existed across the continent; their inmates were later shipped to Nazi concentration camps. Eastern Europe.
6 dni temu · This volume provides a comprehensive account of how the Nazis established ghettos throughout the scattered towns and villages of Poland and the Soviet Union, an important step in the segregation, concentration, and persecution of Europe’s Jews during the Holocaust.
Frankfort, Budapest, Rome, Venice, Vilna, were among the largest, best-known historical European Ghettos. On the West Side of Chicago, observers and commentators alike noted, a Jewish “ghetto” existed within a slum.
2 sie 2016 · Historians estimate that about 1,100 Jewish ghettos were established by the Nazis and their allies in Europe between 1933 and 1945. This map shows the locations of the largest ghettos.
