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  1. Warsaw Ghetto - Wikipedia

    • The Warsaw Ghetto (German: Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; Polish: getto warszawskie) was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust. It was established in November 1940 by the German authorities within the new General Government territory of o… See more

    Map of Poland Ghettos
    LocationWarsaw, German-occupied Poland · Muranów · Powązki · Nowolipki · Śródmieście Północne · Mirów
    Also known asGerman: Ghetto Warschau
    DateOctober 1940 to May 1943
    Incident typeImprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation, mass deportations to Treblinka and Majdanek
    Background

    Before World War II, the majority of Polish Jews lived in the merchant districts of Muranów, Powązki, and Stara Praga. Over 90% of Catholics lived further away from the commercial center. The Jewish community was the mo… See more

    Establishment of the ghetto

    By the end of the September campaign the number of Jews in and around the capital increased dramatically with thousands of refugees escaping the Polish-German front. In less than a year, the number of refugees in Warsaw … See more

     
  1. List of Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland - Wikipedia

  2. Ghettos in occupied Poland, 1939-1941 | Holocaust Encyclopedia

  3. Ghettos | Holocaust Encyclopedia

    Dec 4, 2019 · The largest ghetto in occupied Poland was the Warsaw ghetto. In Warsaw, more than 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles. Other major ghettos were established in the cities of Lodz, Krakow, Bialystok, …

  4. Life in the Ghettos | Holocaust Encyclopedia

    Warsaw, Poland, ca. 1940. During the Holocaust, the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of brutally separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. Ghettos were often enclosed districts that isolated …

  5. Warsaw Ghetto - Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust …

    In Warsaw, Poland, the Nazis established the largest ghetto in all of Europe. 375,000 Jews lived in Warsaw before the war – about 30% of the city’s total population. Immediately after Poland’s surrender in September 1939, the …

  6. Warsaw Ghetto | Statistics, Holocaust, Map, & Uprising

    Oct 11, 2024 · The Warsaw Ghetto was an 840-acre (340-hectare) area of Warsaw that consisted of the city’s old Jewish quarter. During the German occupation of Poland, the Nazis forced nearly 500,000 Polish Jews to live in …

  7. Łódź Ghetto - Wikipedia

    The Łódź Ghetto or Litzmannstadt Ghetto (after the Nazi German name for Łódź) was a Nazi ghetto established by the German authorities for Polish Jews and Roma following the Invasion of Poland. It was the second-largest ghetto …

  8. An Exercise in Depravity: The Establishment of the …

    In 1942–44, the ghettos and the SS-run camps became links in a gigantic chain of mass deportation and mass annihilation engulfing millions of Jewish lives in the Baltic States, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Hungary.

  9. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Definition, Facts, & History

    Oct 8, 2024 · Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, resistance by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation in 1943 to the deportations from Warsaw to the Treblinka extermination camp. The revolt began on April 19, 1943. While the Germans …