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A document on the establishment of the Kielce Ghetto shows that Bodzentyńska Street was outside the ghetto, which included only the houses on the left (looking from the Market Square) side. However, photographs have survived showing a crowded Bodzentyńska Street, with people standing with armbands, and fences standing in front of the street entrance, which look similar to other gates of the Kielce ghetto.
The photo shows the gate to the ghetto, located at the entrance of Kozia Street to Piotrkowska Street, which is actually the corner of Kiecka Market Square. The photograph shows the intersection with Orla Street, which housed several institutions important to the functioning of the ghetto: the post office, the first headquarters of the Judenrat. Especially moving is the group of children on the right side of the photo.
The gate visible in the photo was located at the entrance of Starowarszawskie Przedmieście Street into Warszawska Street. Warszawska Street, renamed Radomska during the war, was excluded from the ghetto: walking from the Market Square along this street, one was therefore as if in a corridor between the small and large ghetto. According to some testimonies, there was supposed to be a footbridge over the street, used by Jews for communication between the two parts of the ghetto. At the beginning of the now-defunct Starowarszawskie Przedmieście Street, which in this section coincides with today’s northern strip of Aleja Dziwięciu Wieków Kielc, there was the Judenrat building – the center of the ghetto. The synagogue, closed at the beginning of the war, served as a warehouse and prison.
