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A Jewish policeman stands guard while Lodz ghetto residents wait in line to cross one of the pedestrian bridges.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 48564
A Jewish policeman stands guard while Lodz ghetto residents wait in line to cross one of the pedestrian bridges.

A Jewish policeman stands guard while Lodz ghetto residents wait in line to cross one of the pedestrian bridges.

Date
Circa 1940 - 1944
Locale
Lodz, [Lodz] Poland
Variant Locale
Litzmannstadt
Photo Designation
GHETTOS (MAJOR) -- LODZ (Poland) -- Daily Life/Street Scenes: -- Bridges/Entrances/Walls
Photo Credit
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Benjamin (Miedzyrzecki) Meed

About This Photograph

Event History
The Lodz ghetto was divided into three sectors by two major throughfares which passed through, but did not belong to the Jewish district. Wooden and barbed wire fences prevented access to these main streets by ghetto residents. But Jews were allowed to traverse the streets by means of three wooden pedestrian bridges, accessed by steep staircases.

See https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005174.
See Also "Kauen Main Camp" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos Volume 1 Part A.

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Photo Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Provenance: Benjamin (Miedzyrzecki) Meed
Source Record ID: Collections: 1989.237.32
 
Record last modified: 2002-10-25 00:00:00
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