The first step in exterminating the Jews was to isolate and concentrate them in a confined space. For such purposes, the Nazis arranged ghetto. Right in front of you, there are photos of the Judenrat and the Jewish police representatives. You can find information about them next to the images. To your left, there is a showcase with things belonging to Warsaw Ghetto prisoners. The yellow Star of David is sewn on the vest. It was a special sign and a mandatory attribute of every ghetto resident, both for adults and children.

Go through the breach in the wall. To your left, you can watch a film showing a chronicle of the Warsaw and Łódz ghettos, the largest ones in occupied Europe. Right in front of you, there is the installation “Janusz Korczak’s Puppet Theater.”

The Jewish resistance had more than just an armed dimension. Older people, women, and children could only resist the Nazis morally. That's what Janusz Korczak did. His real name was Henrik Goldschmidt. He was a well-known educator and director of a Jewish orphanage. Even in the Warsaw ghetto, he did his best to save his pupils’ childhood. Janusz Korczak rejected all his friends’ suggestions about his salvation. He considered it his duty to accompany the children to the end - to the Treblinka gas chamber.

To the right of the breach in the wall, you can see things that belonged to the Warsaw and Łódz [ЛУдьжь] ghettos prisoners. Check out the interactive monitor. There you will find additional information about this exhibition. To the left of the monitor, there is a collection of money from the Theresienstadt ghetto, located in Theresien, Czech Republic. The Theresienstadt ghetto was a so-called “exemplary” ghetto. The Nazis used it to demonstrate the allegedly good conditions for keeling Jews to representatives of international organizations. However, once the delegations left, Theresienstadt ghetto Jews were deported and then exterminated in the death camps. Banknotes you see can prove the illusory nature of the “exemplary” ghetto. Nobody used them.

Go around the corner. On the right, in the first showcase, you can see various things that belonged to ghetto prisoners, including ghetto coins from Łódz [ЛУдьжь]. In the drawers, you can see the photos taken in this ghetto. On the wall above the showcase, there are copies of announcements the occupation authorities used to address the Jewish population of Galicia. In the showcase on the left, you can see utensils deposited by a Jewish family before being deported to the Krakow [КрАкув] ghetto. The drawers hold documents and photographs of ghetto prisoners. Above the showcase, you can read the announcement of the occupational power regarding the Odesa Jews.

On the wall around the corner on the left, you will find general information about the ghetto in occupied Ukraine.