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.

Forms part of the Claims Conference International Holocaust Documentation Archive at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. This archive consists of documentation whose reproduction and/or acquisition was made possible with funding from the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

Source of acquisition is the Żydowski Instytut Historyczny imienia Emanuela Ringelbluma (ŻIH), Sygn. 216. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives received this collection from the Żydowski Institut Historyczny (ŻIH) via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum International Programs Division in 2008.