Ghetto history

The Ghetto from the 1516 decree to the opening of its gates, the racial laws and the Shoah, and the lives of children in between.

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  Jewish childhoods in Venice: schooling, festivals and memory

  How Jewish children grew up in Venice, from the study rooms of the Ghetto to the school the community opened in 1938 when the racial laws expelled them, and how their memories have been collected.

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  The Shoah in Venice: racial laws, deportations and memory

  From the racial laws of 1938 to the round-ups of December 1943 and 1944: how the Jews of Venice were persecuted and deported, and how the city remembers them today.

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  The Venice Ghetto, 1516–1797: a short history

  Why Venice confined its Jews to the Ghetto Nuovo in 1516, how the Ghetto grew, how its 'nations' lived together, and how its gates were opened in 1797.