16 Okt 1940 Jahr - Warsaw Ghetto

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The Warsaw Ghetto 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. The ghetto was located in an 840-acre area of Warsaw that consisted of the city’s old Jewish quarter2. At its height, as many as 460,000 Jews were imprisoned there, in an area of 3.4 km², with an average of 9.2 persons per room1. The inhabitants of the ghetto were forced to live in inhuman conditions, barely subsisting on meager food rations1. Jews were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Nazi concentration camps and mass-killing centers1. 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.

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