Chart hand drawn in black ink on white paper. Rectangular shape, landscape orientation. On the top there are four circles, one on top of the other, with Yiddish writing inside them. Then a rectangle below the 4th circle, also with writing in Yiddish, with 2 circles and 4 rectangles connecting to it below. Each rectangle has 2 or 4 circles connected below them. All shapes have writings in Yiddish inside them.

Diagram of the Vilna Ghetto Cultural Division

Vilna Ghetto, undated. Hand-drawn chart

Diagram of the Ghetto Cultural Division sections: library, reading room, statistical office, ghetto archive, etc.

Digitization of this artifact has been made possible by the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project.

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Unless otherwise stated, all artifacts featured in the exhibition come from the YIVO's Archives and Library collections. Digitization of many of these materials has been made possible by the Edward Blank YIVO Vilna Online Collections project.

Disclaimer: for the reader’s ease of finding wartime locations on current-day maps, we have at times used the present-day names of those cities and streets as they may be found on modern maps.