People walk along a commercial street near the Lublin ghetto entry sign, ca. 1941–1942. The sign reads, “GHETTO! Entry for Wehrmacht (personnel) is forbidden.” Pre-1939: parts of the Lublin, Lwów, and Warsaw województwa, Poland; 1941–1945: Distrikt Lublin, Generalgouvernement; post-1998: parts of the Lublin and Podkarpackie województwa, Poland, and the L’viv oblast’, Ukraine Distrikt Lublin was established on October 26, 1939, as one of the initial four Distrikte of the Generalgouvernement. Spanning 26,660 square kilometers (10,294 square miles), the Distrikt, composed of territories from pre-war Poland, encompassed almost the entire Lublin województwo, a territorial sliver from the Warsaw województwo, and small parts of the Lwów województwo required to extend its southern frontier to the San River. Some 2.4 million people resided in the Distrikt, including 240,000 to 300,000 Jews. The Jewish population fluctuated, initially because tens of thousands fled German occupation by crossi...