The Kishena Ghetto

The kishinel ghetto was located in the primarily jewish quarter of the city. Jews were not permitted to leave the ghetto, although those who had money could bribe guards for temporary passes to obtain food or work. On average, about ten people succumbed to illness or starvation every day. Guards regularly raped the women and girls while routinely beating the men and boys. At the whim of any god, all jews, men and women, children and the elderly, the able and the ailing, were vulnerable to violence, torture and death. Each day, scores of men and women were seized for forced labor, often never to return.