Warsaw ghetto biography

  • The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Nazi ghettos during World War II and the Holocaust.
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  • In Warsaw, Poland, the Nazis established the largest ghetto in all of Europe.

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    Warsaw Ghetto

    Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland

    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,

    Also known asGerman: Ghetto Warschau
    LocationWarsaw, German-occupied Poland
    DateOctober to May
    Incident typeImprisonment, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation, mass deportations to Treblinka and Majdanek
    Perpetrators&#;Germany
    Participants
    OrganizationsSchutzstaffel (SS), RSHA
    CampTreblinka, Majdanek[1]
    Victims
    • , at Treblinka[2]
    • 42, at Majdanek[2]
    • 92, inside the ghetto
    • 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 Distr

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    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    For the subsequent general uprising of , see Warsaw Uprising.

    Jewish insurgency against Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland during World War II

    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
    Part of ghetto uprisings during World War II

    Jewish women and children forcibly removed from a bunker by Schutzstaffel (SS) units for deportation either to Majdanek or Treblinkaextermination camps (); one of the most iconic pictures of World War II.
    Belligerents

    Supported by:

    • AK (Home Army)
    • GL (People's Guard)
    Commanders and leaders
    Strength
    Daily average of 2,, including Waffen-SS About [2] ŻOB and about [3] ŻZW fighters, plus a number of Polish fighters
    Casualties and losses
    January uprising:

    About a dozen killed
    Several dozen wounded

    April uprising:

    German figures:

    17 killed
    93 wounded


    Jewish resistance estimate:
    casualties[5]    		 56, killed or captured of which approximately 36, deported to
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    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

    Background

    Photo

    Deportation from Warsaw (Photo)

    Deportation of Jewish women from the Warsaw ghetto. Poland,

    Credits:
    • YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York

    The Warsaw ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe. Established by the Germans in October , and sealed that November, the ghetto housed approximately , Jews. 

    The “Great Action”

    From July 22 until September 21, , German SS and police units, assisted by auxiliaries, carried out mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center. During what was described as the “Great Action,” the Germans deported about , Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka. They killed approximately 35, Jews inside the ghetto during this operation. By early , the surviving Jews in the Warsaw ghetto numbered approximately 70, to 80, individuals. 

    The Jewish Underground (&#;OB and &#;ZW) in the Warsaw ghetto

    The “Great Action” h