Collection of documents from ghettos and camps in Eastern Europe. Jewish Council Łachwa Kolekcja dokumentów z gett i obozów Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Rada Żydowska w Łachwie (Sygn. 216)

Lakhva Ghetto (or Łachwa Ghetto) existed from summer 1941 to summer 1942 in Lakhva (Polish Łachwa - a town now in Belarus, then in the German occupied Poland, and up to 1939 in the Second Polish Republic). Lakhva Ghetto is considered to have been the location of one of the first, and possibly the first Jewish ghetto uprisings of the Second World War. Copyright Holder: Żydowski Instytut Historyczny im. Emanuela Ringelbluma Contains a single document dated on August 25, 1941. Its content relates to confirmation of delivery of the Jewish workers by the Judenrat to Łachwa authorities.