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Victims. 48,000 Polish Jews. The Częstochowa Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews in the city of Częstochowa during the German occupation of Poland.
Ghettos in Nazi-Occupied Poland; Ghetto Location: Population: Date of Creation: Date of Liquidation: Final Destination Aleksandrów Lódzki: 3,500 1939 Dec 1939 to G?owno ghetto Be??yce: 4,500 Jun 1940 May 1943 to Budzy? ghetto → Sobibor and Majdanek B?dzin Ghetto: 7,000–28,000 Jul 1940 Aug 1943
On February 8, 1940, the order to establish the Lodz ghetto was announced. The original plan was to set up the ghetto in one day, in actuality, it took weeks. Jews from throughout the city were ordered to move into the sectioned off area, only bringing what they could hurriedly pack within just a few minutes.
After Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin destroyed the short-lived Second Polish Republic (1918–1939) and partitioned Poland, the Nazis enacted a range of extreme antisemitic measures against Poland’s Jewish population, culminating in the establishment of ghettos. The largest of them, decreed on October 12, 1940, was in the former capital city ...
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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.
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.
Aug 2, 2016 · Beginning in 1939, Jews throughout German-controlled Poland were forced to move into ghettos—specific areas of cities and towns that were separated from the rest of the population.
