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Warsaw Ghetto

Warsaw Ghetto. Ana Cristina Gonzalez Garcia Social Studies 11. Warsaw Ghetto. 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. Information of Warsaw Ghetto.

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Warsaw Ghetto

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  1. Warsaw Ghetto Ana Cristina Gonzalez Garcia Social Studies 11

  2. Warsaw Ghetto • The Warsaw Ghetto(German: Ghetto Warschau; Polish: gettowarszawskie) was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.

  3. Information of Warsaw Ghetto • 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.

  4. Creation • 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

  5. Conditions • 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

  6. 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.

  7. Type • Conditions • Population • Deaths • Survive • Was open • Last days fo war • Liberated by witch country

  8. Survive

  9. Deaths

  10. Population • 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.

  11. Warsaw Ghetto and Hitler • 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.

  12. Information Pages • http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/uprising1.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto • http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/warsaw_ghetto.htm

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