Mapping Modernity

11. Jüdischen Wohnbezirks

25 October 2023

 

Walking routes to the ghetto in Lemberg

This rare trilingual street poster, issued by the German governor on November 8, 1941, compels Jewish residents in Lemberg/Lwów/Lviv to settle in two slums located north of the railway line. The ghetto’s location was chosen by the newly appointed Ukrainian mayor. The poster includes mandatory dates and designated walking routes.

Deutsche Wehrmacht, Dr Lasch, Bekanntmachung: Bildung eines jüdischen Wohnbezirks in der Stadt, Lemberg 1941. Coll. S/T W.2y.39, 94.5 x 63.5 cm.