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The Jewish ghetto in Lviv (now Ukraine) was established right after the Nazi occupation in 1941. Around 120 thousand Jews were forced to move within the ghetto. Starting from 1942 several aktions resulted with mass killings, deportations to Janowska camp and nearby death camps. While the population of the ghetto was decreasing, its boundaries were shrinking into a smaller area of Judenlag, including just a few streets with places of residence for Jewish forced laborers who worked in a number of factories and enterprises all over the city. Eventually, it was liquidated by June of 1943.

A set of registration cards on over 17 thousands of the ghetto residents was preserved in the archives. These cards include the full name of a person, date of birth, place of residence, occupation, place of forced labour, and special remarks. By corroborating historical names of Lviv streets with the card addresses it was possible to partially map places of residence within the ghetto.

A work-in-progress project is aimed at developing a mapping tool for addressing questions about historical areas and Holocaust topographies, forced labor and deportations, everyday life (food, rationing, welfare), streetlife, density and mobility under extreme conditions, urban spaces, segregation and surveillance, policing, housing & surviving architecture, post-war urban transformations and commemoration.