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An Exercise in Depravity: The Establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto. The largest of the ghettos where Eastern European Jews were first confined and, later, deported to extermination camps by the Nazis was set up in Warsaw, Poland. October 14, 2022.
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The Kraków Ghetto was one of five major metropolitan Nazi ghettos created by Germany in the new General Government territory during the German occupation of Poland in World War II. It was established for the purpose of exploitation, terror, and persecution of local Polish Jews.
This was the largest Jewish community in Europe at the time. The Nazis occupied Warsaw on 29 September 1939, four weeks after invading Poland. The Jewish population in Warsaw had grown following orders from Heydrich to concentrate Jews in cities and towns, but a ghetto was not decreed until 12 October 1940.
There had already been a couple of ghettos established in other parts of Poland, but the Jewish population had been relatively small and those ghettos had remained open - meaning, the Jews and the surrounding civilians were still able to have contact. Lodz had a Jewish population estimated at 230,000, living throughout the city.
Warsaw Ghetto History. Prior to World War II, Warsaw was the capital of Poland, with a population of 1.3 million and the largest Jewish community in Europe at the time with 380,567 Jewish inhabitants (Warsaw). The Nazi’s occupied Warsaw on September 29th, 1939, four weeks after invading Poland. Following the invasion of Poland, the Nazi’s ...
Encyclopedia of Jewish and Israeli history, politics and culture, with biographies, statistics, articles and documents on topics from anti-Semitism to Zionism.
Oct. 8, 1939 Piotrków Trybunalski. On 8 October 1939, the Germans established their first ghetto for Jews in Piotrków Trybunalski, a town in the western part of occupied Poland. All of the Jews from this town were made to move to the ghetto. Jews from the surrounding area were taken there as well.
