After the action

Two views of the Lvov ghetto upper and centre. The lower drawing shows a group of people rounded up after an 'aktion'. The 'aktions' were organised SS raids on the ghettos where the Jews would be searched, rounded up and massacred in nearby fields or transferred to Janowska. The raids were carried out with brutal precision. In the upper two drawings "After the aktion' and 'Alone' the ghetto barracks are sketched as shanty huts. The ghetto was in the poorest, most derelict part of Lvov and lacked municipal sewage, water and electricity. The original inhabitants had been evacuated by order to make way for the Jews. On any given day the old, sick, orphaned, males or females over certain ages could be rounded up in the 'aktion' and never be seen again.