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1 day ago · Initially, the Romani were herded into so-called ghettos, including the Warsaw Ghetto (April–June 1942), where they formed a distinct class in relation to the Jews. Ghetto diarist Emmanuel Ringelblum speculated that Romani were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto because the Germans wanted:
4 days ago · In the summer of 1942, the Nazis launched mass deportations from the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp. From July to September, about 265,000 Jews were taken from the Warsaw Ghetto and murdered in the gas chambers of Treblinka. Another 35,000 Jews were killed in the ghetto itself during the deportations.
4 days ago · Established by the Nazis in October 1940, the ghetto confined over 400,000 Jews in a small, walled-off area of Warsaw, covering just 2.4% of the city‘s total area. [^1] The living conditions in the ghetto were abysmal, with severe overcrowding, food shortages, and rampant disease.
4 days ago · May 27, 2024. In the heart of Warsaw, Poland lies a somber monument marking one of the darkest chapters in the city‘s history. This is Umschlagplatz, the assembly point where the Nazis gathered hundreds of thousands of Warsaw‘s Jewish residents for deportation to concentration and extermination camps during the Holocaust.
1 day ago · The Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw completes the Warsaw Ghetto Encyclopedia Project, a comprehensive online resource detailing the closed Jewish district. A conference on May 28-29, 2024, will present the project's findings and discuss various aspects of ghetto life.
1 day ago · Famine in Warsaw Ghetto, as well as other ghettos and concentration camps (note: this famine was the result of deliberate denial of food to ghetto residents on the part of Nazis). Occupied Poland: 1940–1948: Famine in Morocco between 1940 and 1948, because of refueling system installed by France. Morocco: 200,000: 1941–1944
5 days ago · During excavations in the basements of two buildings in Warsaw, at 39 and 41 Muranowska Street—near Mila 18, where Mordechai Anielewicz's bunker was located in the ghetto—more than 5,000...
