Stock Photo - Holocaust Memorial in the Ghetto Nuovo Square, Venice, created in 1980. consists of seven bronze panels, by the artist Arbit Blatas, to remember the victims of the Nazi deportation. 243 were deported, while the other members of the community, about 1200 people, managed to escape. The Venetian Ghetto was the area of Venice in which Jews were compelled to live by the government of the Venetian Republic. The English word ""ghetto"" is derived from the Jewish ghetto in Venice. The Venetian Ghetto was instituted on 29 March 1516 and is the oldest Jewish ghetto in the world.