The ghetto entirely surrounded Łódź’s major market: Bałucki Rynek, which the Nazis were keen to keep open. To achieve this, the Nazi’s sealed off the market and its access roads, allowing traffic to come and go without entering the ghetto. In effect this created two separate ghettos. These were split by the market and Zgierska, and linked by three bridges: two ran over Zgierska and another linked the divided street of Zachodnia. The bridges have become a symbol of the ghetto, and appear on all ghetto literature. The bridge pictured below was on lower Zgierska, linking Podrzeczna to Stary Rynek (all streets named are on B/C-1). Neither the bridge nor the surrounding buildings remain today.