[Cz-L]the ghetto perimeter fence question

Hardy is right: We can (1) accept the "hard" evidence we do have --the "Inconostiintare" (a document from October 1941) -- plus the oral recollections (like Berti's) and memoirs that describe what the witnesses saw and remember, or (2) we can move into the realm of imagination/fiction to present what we think "should have been" according to our own subjective notions of what "makes sense" or not. Certainly, from one perspective, it does not make sense not to enclose the ghetto with a fenced perimeter. But from another perspective -- given the speed with which the ghetto was established, the brevity of its existence, as well as the logistical problems involved in building a parameter fence enclosing an area that also housed large numbers of non-Jews -- it was probably easier, cheaper, and less generally disruptive to control access and exit from individual ghetto streets with barbed wire and make-shift gates guarded by gendarmes. I do, of course, appreciate fiction and imagination and enjoy the discussions we have been having about this. But, in this case, the historian in me wins out: I lean towards what we do know factually. But I will happily be convinced if anyone offers a single shred of hard evidence that points toward the existence of a totally fenced-in perimeter.
Best, Leo
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