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Warsaw Ghetto

For the book, see The Warsaw Ghetto: A Guide to the Perished City.

Warsaw Ghetto
Brick wall of the Warsaw Ghetto dividing the Iron-Gate Square, with view of bombed out Lubomirski Palace (left) on the "Aryan" side of the city, May 24, 1941.
Also known asGerman: Ghetto Warschau
LocationWarsaw, German-occupied Poland
DateOctober 1940 to May 1943
Incident typeImprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation, mass deportations to Treblinka and Majdanek
Perpetrators Germany
Participants
OrganizationsSchutzstaffel (SS), RSHA
CampTreblinka, Majdanek[1]
Victims
  • 265,000 at Treblinka[2]
  • 42,000 at Majdanek[2]
  • 92,000 inside the ghetto[3]
  • with expellees from Germany, Czechoslovakia and other occupied countries[4]
Documentation
Memorials

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. It was established in November 1940 by the German authorities within the new General Government territory of occupied Poland. At its height, as many as 460,000 Jews were imprisoned there,[5] in an area of 3.4 km2 (1.3 sq mi), with an average of 9.2 persons per room,[6][7] barely subsisting on meager food rations.[7] Jews were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Nazi concentration camps and mass-killing centers. In the summer of 1942, at least 254,000 ghetto residents were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp during Großaktion Warschau under the guise of "resettlement in the East" over the course of the summer.[7] The ghetto was demolished by the Germans in May 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had temporarily halted the deportations. The total death toll among the prisoners of the ghetto is estimated to be at least 300,000 killed by bullet or gas,[8] combined with 92,000 victims of starvation and related diseases, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the casualties of the final destruction of the ghetto.[2][9][10][11]

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