The borders of the ghetto: Pavlovskaia street (modern day Petru Rares / Constantin Tanase), Harlambie street (modern day Alexandru cel Bun street), Sf. Vineri street (modern day Octavian Goga street), Marasesti street (modern day Junimea street), Sf. Gheorghe street, and Garii-Viilor-Bannaia-Siriiscaia streets (modern day Gradinilor - Albisoara streets).
The ghetto was enclosed by a wooden fence with barbed wire and had a total perimeter of 4km. Beginning in August 1941, the Jewish population of Chisinau were forced to wear the yellow star on their chest, which further denigrated the victims. It thus became easier for the Nazis and their accomplices to observe the Jews in the city. In August 1941 the ghetto had 80 guards and by October the number had reached 250. Once the Jewish men, women and children were registered, they were forced to move into the ghetto. According to various estimates, between 10400 and 13000 people were imprisoned in the Chisinau ghetto. General Constantin Niculescu reported the total number of persons displaced in the ghetto: 11525 in total, 4148 men, 4476 women and 2901 children.
The deportation of the first group of Jews from the Chisinau ghetto to Transnistria took place on October 8th, 1941. The deportees' column traveled an 80 kilometer route for two days: from Chisinau to Orhei on the first day and from Orhei to Rezina on the second day.
Food supplies were getting worse day by day. People were starving. The ghetto was administered by a council of 20 persons under the leadership of Gutman Landau. This council could only do one thing: oversee the daily distribution of 200 grams of bread for each person and 200 portions of soup. There were 3 to 5 families in each ghetto apartment. Due to overpopulation, high density, bad hygiene, lack of clothes, underwear and medication, the living conditions were very poor. There were outbreaks of typhus and typhoid fever which evolved into epidemics. According to various estimates in the autumn of 1941, 10 to 25 people died every day in the ghetto.
Since mid-September 1941 the administration of the ghetto became stricter. On September 22, 1941, General Constantin Voiculescu ordered tighter control, so that 'nothing should be taken out or introduced into the ghetto for the Jews'.
The last group of Jews,  257 persons in total, were deported from the ghetto. According to various sources, between 118 and 188 persons were temporarily allowed to remain in the city. But the latter were eventually deported to Transnistria between May 20th and June 20th, 1942. On April 22, 1993, the 'Monument to the Victims of the Chisinau Ghetto' was inaugurated on the spot of the former entrance to the ghetto. 

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