Police guard the entrance to the Vilna ghetto
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Date
1941-1943
Description
Jewish and Lithuanian police guard the entrance to the Vilna ghetto, a small, segregated portion of the city where tens of thousands of Jews were forced to live in harsh conditions. Pictured at the left is Ferdinand Beigel.
Type
Photograph
Region
Global
Era
The Great Depression and WW II
Topic
Genocide, Global History and Geography, Jewish History, World War II
Repository
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Identifer
64118
Source
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of William Begell
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