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Ana Cristina Gonzalez Garcia
Social Studies 11
 The Warsaw Ghetto (German: Ghetto
Warschau; Polish: getto warszawskie) was the largest
of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied
Europe during World War II.
 It was established in the Polish
capital between October and
November 16, 1940, in the territory
of the General Government of
German-occupied Poland, with
over 400,000 Jews from the vicinity
residing in an area of 3.4 km2 (1.3
sq mi). From there, at least 254,000
Ghetto residents were sent to the
Treblinka extermination camp over
the course of two months in the
summer of 1942.
 The construction of the ghetto
wall started on April 1, 1940.
 but the Germans closed the
Warsaw Ghetto to the outside
world on November 16 that
year. The wall was typically 3 m
(9.8 ft) high.
 The Warsaw Ghetto was
established by the German
Governor-General Hans Frank
on October 16, 1940
 During the next year and a half, thousands of Polish
Jews as well as some Romani people from smaller cities
and the countryside were brought into the Ghetto,
while diseases (especially typhus),[12] and starvation
kept the inhabitants at about the same number.
Average food rations in 1941 for Jews in Warsaw were
limited to 184 calories, compared to 699 calories for
gentile Poles and 2,613 calories for Germans
 The Warsaw Ghetto was established on the orders of
Hans Frank who was the most senior Nazi in Poland
after the success of the invasion that started on
September 1st 1939.
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 Conditions
 Population
 Deaths
 Survive
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 Last days fo war
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 The population in Warsaw Ghetto was from 400,000 Polish
Jews Germans also hundred Roma (Gypsies) .
 The Germans ordered the Jewish “police” in the Warsaw
ghetto to round up people for deportation.
 Approximately 300,000 men, women, and children were
packed in cattle cars and transported to the Treblinka
death camp where they were murdered. This left a Jewish
population of between 55,000 and 60,000 in the ghetto.
 In 1942, Hitler decided to liquidate the ghettos and,
within 18 months, had the more than two million Jews
who’d survived the ghettos deported to death camps.
 http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust
/uprising1.html
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto
 http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/warsaw_ghetto.
htm