Lwów Ghetto
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The Lwów Ghetto (German: Ghetto Lemberg; Polish: getto we Lwowie) was a Nazi ghetto in the city of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine) in the territory of Nazi-administered General Government in German-occupied Poland.
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Also known as | German: Ghetto Lemberg |
Location | Lwów, Zamarstynów (German-occupied Poland) |
Date | 8 November 1941 to 2 June 1943 |
Incident type | Imprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation, forced abortions and sterilization |
Organizations | SS |
Camp | Belzec extermination camp Janowska concentration camp |
Victims | 120,000 Polish Jews |
Survivors | 823 |
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The ghetto, set up in the second half of 1941, was liquidated in June 1943; all its inhabitants who survived prior killings were deported to the Bełżec extermination camp and the Janowska concentration camp.