'Face of the Ghetto' Exhibition Continues Through June 28 at
Perry Library From now until June 28, members of the campus
community and the general public have an opportunity to view 50
enlarged photographic prints from a period of world history that
some might prefer to forget. But as the speakers at the opening
reception for the exhibition in the Perry Library Learning
Commons, "The Face of the Ghetto," pointed out May 16, we need
to be reminded of what happened under Nazi Germany. Vice Provost
Chandra de Silva told those in the audience, "This is something
we can learn from to build a better world." During World War II,
the German Nazis established the second largest ghetto for Jews
in the occupied Polish city of £ód, renamed Litzmannstadt by the
German occupants. In April 1940, more than 160,000 Jews from the
Warthegau region were crowded into the Litzmannstadt Ghetto,
which consisted of an area of 4.14 square kilometers. Later on,
20,000 Jews from the German Reich, Prague and Luxembourg were
deported to L