invasion of Poland existed in almost all larger cities; which comprise the territories of East Belarus since the Revolutions of 1989. They included: Minsk Ghetto in Minsk, today's capital of the Republic of Belarus, holding 100,000 Jews Bobruisk Ghetto Babruysk holding 25,000 Jews Vitebsk Ghetto Vitebsk holding 20,000 Jews Mogilev Ghetto Mogilev holding 12,000 Jews Gomel Ghetto in Gomel holding over 10,000 Jews; in Gomel Region alone, twenty ghettos were established in which no less than 21,000 people were imprisoned. Slutsk Ghetto Slutsk holding 10,000 Jews Borisov Ghetto Barysaw holding 8,000 Jews Polotsk Ghetto Polotsk holding 8,000 Jews. Croatia Dubrovnik Established in 1546 by the former Republic of Ragusa. Split Established in 1738 by the former Republic of Venice. Czech Republic Josefov, Prague; formerly the Jewish ghetto Jewish Quarter of Trebic The Holocaust Theresienstadt Ghetto France Le Marais, historic district of Paris. Avignon Germany Frankfurt From its creation to its dissolution at the end of the 18th century, the city councils limited expansion in the Judengasse, resulting in a steady increase in population to the point of overcrowding. The original area of about a dozen houses with around 100 inhabitants, grew to almost 200 houses and some 3,000 inhabitants. The plots, originally quite generous, were successively divided while the total size of the ghetto remained the same. This increased the number of plots but subsequently reduced the size of each plot. In the process, many houses were replaced by two or more houses which were often divided in turn. Many of the houses were designed to be narrow and long, in order to maximize the limited space – the smallest house, the Rote Hase, was only about one and a half meters wide. Friedberg Jewish settlement during the Middle Ages all across the town, but since 1360 following a number of pogroms concentrating on the Judengasse (Jew's Row), running parallel to the main street. The Third Reich and World War II At the beginning of World War II, nearly a quarter of the pre-war Polish areas were annexed by Nazi Germany and placed directly under German civil administration, in violation of international law (in particular, the Hague Convention IV 1907). Nazi Germany organized ghettos in many occupied countries, but the ghettos in the new Reichsgaue including Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia and Reichsgau Wartheland were particularly notorious. The Łódź/Litzmannstadt Ghetto holding 204,000 prisoners existed in a Polish city annexed to Germany; numerous