Vilna Ghetto
| Vilna Ghetto | |
|---|---|
Vilna Ghetto (Julian Klaczko Street), 1941 | |
| Location | Vilnius Old Town 54°40′40″N 25°16′59″E / 54.67778°N 25.28306°E |
| Date | 6 September 1941 to 24 September 1943 |
| Incident type | Imprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation, exile |
| Organizations | Nazi SS, Ypatingasis būrys |
| Camp | Kailis forced labor camp HKP 562 forced labor camp |
| Victims | About 55,000 Jews |
The Vilna Ghetto was a World War II Jewish ghetto established and operated by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the modern country of Lithuania, at the time part of the Nazi-administered Reichskommissariat Ostland.
During the approximately two years of its existence starvation, disease, street executions, maltreatment, and deportations to concentration and extermination camps reduced the ghetto's population from an estimated 40,000.
Only several hundred of the city's pre-war Jewish population managed to survive the war, mostly by hiding in the forests surrounding the city, by joining Soviet partisans, or by sheltering with sympathetic locals.