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Apr 24, 2019 · 44 Harrowing Photos Captured Inside The Warsaw Ghetto During The Holocaust. The Warsaw ghetto remains one of the darkest examples of Nazi Germany’s cruel, calculated efforts to first contain Europe’s Jewish populations and then eliminate them entirely.
Four collections of unique photos covering different perspectives of the Warsaw ghetto, the largest of all Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during WWII.
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began on April 19, 1943, after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising, deported surviving ghetto residents, and left the ghetto area in ruins.
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.
A Jewish resistance fighter captured in a bunker in the Warsaw Ghetto. Jews pulled from hidden bunkers that were either found or betrayed. Captured Rabbis in the Ghetto. Bodies of Jewish resisters lie in front of a building where they were shot by the SS.
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 Jews of Warsaw were brutally preyed upon and taken for forced labor.
Warsaw ghetto, Poland, September 19, 1941. This photograph was taken by Heinrich Joest, a German army sergeant during World War II. On September 19, 1941, he took 140 images of every aspect of life and death in the Warsaw ghetto.
