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Four collections of unique photos covering different perspectives of the Warsaw ghetto, the largest of all Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during WWII
- Warsaw Ghetto
In Warsaw, Poland, the Nazis established the largest ghetto...
- Warsaw Ghetto
- The Judenrat, Blue Stars of David, and The Dissolution of Jewish Organizations
- The Warsaw Ghetto
- Conditions Inside The Ghetto
- Deportations to Treblinka
- The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Final Deportations from The Warsaw Ghetto
- The Liberation of Warsaw
A few days after the city surrendered, the Germans officially established the Judenrat, a Jewish council headed by Jewish engineer Adam Czerniaków and situated in the southern part of the ghetto on Grzybowska Street. The Judenrat was implemented partly as a Nazi appeasement of the Jewish population designed to make them think they had some control ...
The Warsaw ghetto was formally established on Oct. 12, 1940, with all Jewish residents mandated to move within its confines immediately. By November, the Nazis had completely sealed the ghetto off from the rest of Warsaw — using a 10-foot tall, barbed wire wall that was guarded at all times. The ghetto’s estimated population soon reached more than ...
“The hunger in the ghetto was so great, was so bad, that people were laying on the streets and dying, little children went around begging,” recalled survivor Abraham Lewent. In addition to poor housing, disease, and lack of medical care, a severe lack of food was the primary concern for residents of the Warsaw ghetto. Allotments rationed out by Ger...
Between just July and September of 1942, the Nazis deported around 265,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka, where some 35,000 were killed within a matter of mere months. It was the SS, with local help from the police, that carried out the logistics of these deportations. With such a massive amount of people, the Nazis simply packed train c...
With deportation or extermination virtually inevitable, numerous secret Jewish organizations began to mobilize. According to the Holocaust Encyclopedia, the armed Jewish Combat Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB) had 500 members, while the Jewish Military Union (Zydowski Zwiazek Wojskowy; ZZW) had another 250. Initially, the plan was to...
Scattered resistance fighters endured for another four weeks before the SS officially ended its operation. By May 16, 1943, the SS and police had deported 42,000 survivors and shipped them off to concentration camps in Trawniki, Lublin, and Poniatowa. At least 7,000 Jews died in the battles for the Warsaw ghetto, either by force or from starvation....
On Aug. 1, 1944, the Home Army made a final push to liberate the ghetto. The slow but steady encroachment of Soviet troops was an inciting factor here, as the underground resistance army felt that true military support was finally headed its way. The Soviets failed to contribute during this crucial juncture, however, and the Nazis razed what was le...
Feb 13, 2017 · A woman lying on the pavement in the Warsaw ghetto, starving to death, 1941. On 2 October 1940, Ludwig Fischer, Governor of the Warsaw District in the occupied General Government of Poland, signed the order to officially create a Jewish district (ghetto) in Warsaw.
Feb 7, 2018 · Millions of prisoners of the Jewish ghettos died at the hands of the Nazis — but the photos survive; a warning, showing us what life looks like at the start of a genocide. After this look inside the Jewish ghettos of World War II, see some of the most powerful Holocaust photos ever taken.
Young girl on the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, February 1941. Approximately 20% of the 450,000 Jews confined in the Warsaw ghetto were refugees who had come from outside Warsaw. They arrived almost entirely without belongings, clothes and food, and lacked work and accommodation. Many were forced to beg in the streets.
Photograph from SS General Juergen Stroop's report showing the Warsaw ghetto after the German suppression of the ghetto uprising. Stroop, commander of German forces that suppressed the Warsaw ghetto uprising, compiled an album of photographs and other materials.
Jan 18, 2023 · Warsaw’s Jewish history museum this week presented a group of photographs taken in secret during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, some of which have never been seen before, that were...
