Dear all, In our "Ghosts of Home" we publish a ghetto map that Leo created, a corrected version the map in the Finkel book based on the exact specifications of the ghetto published in the newspaper when the ghetto was created.
I can send that map to edgar or Jerome to put up if you are interested.
Marianne
On Feb 11, 2011, at 9:17 AM, HARDY BREIER wrote:
> Edgar,
> This map is from the E. Finkel book and is actually not a map but a
> marking of the streets as they appear in the Ghetto decree on Oct.11.
>
> A map would have some demarcation or territorial boundaries.
>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/HARDYLOG/GhettoMap#slideshow/5572405710763128258
> This has not.
> In general the shape of the Ghetto was that of a funnel having its spout outlet at
> the railway station.
> The railway area was in the Ghetto , surrounded and watched.
> The idea was squeezing the Jews out toward the station , load them and
> expedite them.
> The railway station ,therefore was belonging to the Ghetto , for this
> holy operation.
> The Ghetto in itself was an impossible task, with some 10,000 non-jews
> living there who needed to move around , there were only
> 2 crossing points : Russischegasse and Nikolausgasse( if I'm right).
> After a week or so the Ghetto parameter started to shift , as more
> Jews were evacuated .
> Then came Popovici and his rescue operation and one day there
> was no Ghetto.
> Only a tin shield at the Ham , small , blue and shabby ,is there
> to tell the story.
>
> Hardy
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