Transformations of the former space of the Białystok ghetto

Abstract

The area of the Bialystok ghetto, existing from 1941 to 1943, encompassed a central industrial and service-residential zone. The buildings within this area suffered extensive damage during the war, and the vast majority of its Jewish inhabitants did not survive. The purpose of this article is to trace the process of the ghetto’s destruction and then the urban and social reconstruction of its space, examining its goals, stages and effects. As a result, it became  emporarily a Jewish space, and later, when the physical and functional continuity was
completely broken, a completely new, socialist, modern space.