Children of the Ghetto

Catalogue Reference:(JML) 77.23

A photograph of a group of smiling children in the Warsaw Ghetto taken from a book entitled The Alien Immigrant published in 1903. Exactly 40 years later in 1943 the Ghetto was to see one of the most famous of all resistance attempts by a Jewish community against deportation by the Germans during World War Two. At the end, more than 56,000 people were captured: 7,000 were shot and the rest sent to concentration camps. The oldest ghetto is the one in Venice, established in 1516, and was an area within the city where the Jewish community was required to live. The inhabitants were allowed to leave the ghetto during the day but at night the doors were locked.