Warsaw Ghetto
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The Warsaw Ghetto 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. 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.
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See also
- Adam Czerniaków - Head of Warsaw Judenrat (1939-1942)
- Ghettos in occupied Europe 1939-1944
- Great Synagogue in Warsaw - One of the largest synagogues in the world, demolished in 1943
- Grossaktion Warschau - The massive deportation to Treblinka in 1942
- Group 13 - Jewish collaborationist secret police also known as Jewish Gestapo, led by Abraham Gancwajch
- Heinz Auerswald - Commissioner for the Jewish residential district in Warsaw
- Hermann Höfle - A deputy to Globocnik
- Jewish Ghetto Police - Jewish collaborationist police force in Warsaw Ghetto and elsewhere
- Jürgen Stroop - Nazi commander during the suppression of the uprising
- Miła 18 - place of mass suicide of Mordechai Anielewicz and other leaders of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Mila 18 - A book by Leon Uris
- Muranów - a district in Warsaw where the major part of the Ghetto was built
- Odilo Globocnik - The Nazi leader responsible for the liquidation of the Ghetto
- The Silver Sword - A novel focused on a family from Warsaw during the second world war
- Timeline of Treblinka
- Umschlagplatz - Collection point for the deportations to extermination camps
- Warsaw concentration camp - The concentration camp established in the former Ghetto
- Warschauer Kniefall - Gesture by Chancellor of Germany Willy Brandt
- Żagiew - A group of collaborators posing as a resistance group (see also Hotel Polski affair)
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