Pre-War & Wartime Maps of Częstochowa

Source: Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute (ŻIH)

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245-17 Częstochowa City plan, 1937
– later denoted with locations of the “Big Ghetto” and “Small Ghetto” (Polish)

245-18 Częstochowa City plan
– created for a Częstochowa Judenrat statistical report (Polish)

245-19 Częstochowa “Big Ghetto” and “Small Ghetto”
– prepared for the Administration Department of the Częstochowa Judenrat (Polish)

245-20 Częstochowa “Big Ghetto” and “Small Ghetto”
– author unknown (Polish)

245-21 Częstochowa “Small Ghetto”, author unknown (Polish)
– showing destroyed and damaged areas

245-22 Częstochowa “Small Ghetto”, author unknown (Polish)
– precisely indicating destroyed and damaged buildings

245-23 Częstochowa Concentration Camp, Plant No.1
– drawn in KL Płaszów on 7th January 1945 (German)

245-24 Częstochowa Concentration Camp, Plant No.1
– drawn by Ołomucki 1945 (Polish)


SOURCE:

The archives of the
Emanuel Ringelblum
Jewish Historical Institute (Żydowski Instytut Historyczny)
in Warsaw


IMPORTANT NOTICE

The maps on this page may not, either in part or as a whole, be distributed or published without the prior written permission of the Emanuel Ringelblum
Jewish Historical Institute.

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