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- This map shows the boundaries of the Warsaw Ghetto, where 400,000 people were incarcerated. It was published by the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1944. Courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. 1 / 2 Prior to the Second World War, Warsaw was the capital of Poland. The city had 1.3 million inhabitants, of which 380,567 were Jewish.
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Animated Map. The Warsaw Ghetto. Before World War II, Warsaw was a center of Jewish life and culture in Poland. During the war, the Nazis established ghettos where they forced Jews to live under crowded and miserable conditions.
This map shows the boundaries of the Warsaw Ghetto, where 400,000 people were incarcerated. It was published by the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1944. Courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library Collections. 1 / 2. Prior to the Second World War, Warsaw was the capital of Poland. The city had 1.3 million inhabitants, of which 380,567 were Jewish.
During World War II, the Germans established ghettos where Jews were forced to live in miserable conditions. In October 1940, a ghetto was established in Warsaw, Poland. Before the war, Warsaw had the largest Jewish community in Europe. At its height, the Warsaw ghetto held more than 400,000 Jews.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising[a] was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany 's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps.
- 19 April-16 May 1943 (29 days)
- Uprising suppressed
In 1942–44, the ghettos and the SS-run camps became links in a gigantic chain of mass deportation and mass annihilation engulfing millions of Jewish lives in the Baltic States, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, and Hungary.
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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.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has become the most iconic instance of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust, but it is only one of many. There were uprisings in the Białystok Ghetto, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and the Sobibór and Treblinka death camps.
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