Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany

Ghettos in German-occupied Europe
Main square of the Radom Ghetto with gate
Also known as	Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in German
Location	Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe
Date	1939–1945
Incident type	Total of more than 1,000 ghettos created mostly in Central and Eastern Europe[1]
Perpetrators	Schutzstaffel (SS), Order Police battalions
Ghetto	Open ghettos, in specified areas (1939) Closed or sealed ghettos (1940–1941) Destruction or extermination ghettos (1942)

Beginning with the invasion of Poland during World War II, the Nazi regime set up ghettos across German-occupied Eastern Europe in order to segregate and confine Jews, and sometimes Romani people, into small sections of towns and cities furthering their exploitation. In German documents, and signage at ghetto entrances, the Nazis usually referred to them as Jüdischer Wohnbezirk or Wohngebiet der Juden, both of which translate as the Jewish Quarter. There were several distinct types including open ghettos, closed ghettos, work, transit, and destruction ghettos, as defined by the Holocaust historians. In a number of cases, they were the place of Jewish underground resistance against the German occupation, known collectively as the ghetto uprisings.^[2]