1943 LAKVA
(BELARUS) : CITY MAP OF GHETTO UPRISING + OTHER OLD MAPS (Grodno, Minsk, Slonim, Ivenets, USSR & Eastern Europe, Byelorussian SSR)
The
map shows the Lakva ghetto and the surrounding area, displaying the route
towards the marshes, where the guerrillas were located.
KEY
1.
Community House
2.
School
3.
Local Council
4.
Jewish school
5.
Rabbi’s house
6.
Station
7.
Fuel storage
8.
German police post
9.
Large synagogue
10, Synagogue (illegible)
11. Synagogue
(illegible)
12. Wehrmact command post
13. Milking cows
14. Church
15. Gardens
16. Jewish cemetery
17 Bratsk graves
18. Windmill
19. German Concentration
camp
============ Railway
xxxxxxxxxxxxx ghetto fence
-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.>
Way to escape from the ghetto
Pripyat River—at the bottom
“Only
15 prisoners were armed with axes during the uprising in the Lakva Ghetto… The
signal for the uprising was the successful attack on one of the executioners.
The SS shot & killed about 2,000 prisoners, but about 600 Jews managed to
escape. Subsequently, 150 of them became guerillas….”
Other
map records:
1941
Borisov Jewish Ghetto http://www.karty.by/2012/02/05/lakchva-insurgents/
Grodno
Ghetto http://www.karty.by/2011/01/17/grodno-ghetto/
Minsk
Ghetto http://www.karty.by/2011/01/17/minsk-gheto/
1941
Slonim (Map with the demarcation of the Ghettos area during the Holocaust) http://www.karty.by/2011/03/27/slonim-1941/
1921-1929
Map of the USSR & Eastern Europe
http://www.karty.by/2012/10/30/karta-sssr-i-vostochnoj-evropy-1921-1929-god/
1939-1940
Map of the Byelorussian SSR http://www.karty.by/2012/10/23/western-belarus-1939/
1943
Map of the city of Ivenets http://www.karty.by/2011/03/07/iwenec-1943/
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