In 1939, in Kutno, German-occupied Poland, an elderly man with a yellow Star of David on his chest talked to a German ** officer as he and other Jews were rounded up. Kutno is located 75 miles west of Warsaw.
Soon, Kutno, Poland, became a ghetto, and Jews were forced to live in it.
After the German invasion of Poland in 1939, more than two million Polish Jews fell under the control of the German fascists. The Germans forced Jews to live in the divided areas of the town, which the Nazis called "ghettos" or "jewish residential quarters," in order to manage a sizable number of Jews. In total, the Germans established at least 1,000 ghettos in the occupied territories. The largest ghetto was in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, where nearly 500,000 Jews were enclosed. Many ghettories were fenced with barbed wire and fences, and exits were guarded by local police, German police, or SS soldiers. During the curfew, residents must remain in their rooms.
Jewish residents of the Kutno ghetto stood near a car that had been converted into a temporary house in early 1940.
A German photographer named Hugo Jaeger went deep into Kutno to document the Jews living in the ghetto.
Aerial view of the Kutno ghetto.
Eventually, many of the Jews living in the ghetto were murdered by the German fascists.