Plan your Visit to Yad Vashem
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Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

Jews on the bridge that connected two sections of the Lodz ghetto, Poland, February 1941

The Lodz ghetto was the second largest ghetto in Nazi-occupied Europe.  It was also one of the closest to Germany itself, being situated in western Polish territory that was annexed to Germany, the Wartegau.  This may be the reason that it was a preferred location by German photographers working for the German Army's propaganda units.  These units were under orders to document the Jews in order to supply anti-Jewish propaganda material in Germany.