Warsaw Ghetto

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The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto established by Nazi Germany during World War II, notorious for its extreme overcrowding, starvation, and the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Jewish ghetto
Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland
archive Ringelblum Archive (Oyneg Shabes Archive)
area about 3.4 square kilometers
causeOfDeath deportation to extermination camps
disease
mass shootings
starvation
commanderForOppression Jürgen Stroop
country Nazi Germany
Poland (occupied)
linked to: Poland
createdBy German occupation authorities in Poland
Nazi Germany
dateOfEvent Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; 19 April 1943
deathTollEstimate hundreds of thousands of Jews
dissolved 1943
dividedInto large ghetto
small ghetto
established October 1940
feature barbed wire
guarded gates
governedBy Adam Czerniaków
Judenrat (Jewish Council)
hasEvent Grossaktion Warsaw
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
deportations to Treblinka extermination camp
knownFor Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
disease
extreme overcrowding
starvation
languageUsed German
Polish
Yiddish
locatedIn General Government
German-occupied Poland
Warsaw
locatedOn both sides of Chłodna Street (initially)
mainDeportationDestination Treblinka extermination camp
linked to: Treblinka
memorial Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (adjacent site)
notableFigure Emanuel Ringelblum
Mordechai Anielewicz
partOf Holocaust
World War II
policedBy German Order Police
Jewish Ghetto Police
populationPeak over 400000 Jews
resistanceOrganization Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB)
Jewish Military Union (ŻZW)
sealed 16 November 1940
subjectOf Stroop Report
surroundedBy wall

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Treblinka transportedFrom Warsaw Ghetto
General Government contains Warsaw Ghetto
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising location Warsaw Ghetto
Żegota operatedIn Warsaw Ghetto surroundings
linked to: Warsaw Ghetto
Siege of Warsaw (1939) followedBy Warsaw Ghetto establishment
linked to: Warsaw Ghetto
Zacharias Finkelstein residence Warsaw Ghetto
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery foundedBy Jewish community of Warsaw
linked to: Warsaw Ghetto
Mordechai Anielewicz placeOfDeath Warsaw Ghetto
Jewish Combat Organization activeIn Warsaw Ghetto
Stroop Report topic Warsaw Ghetto
Jewish Military Union location Warsaw Ghetto
Polish Jews confinedIn Warsaw Ghetto
Jürgen Stroop wasPresentAt Warsaw Ghetto
The Pianist mainSubject Nazi-occupied Warsaw
linked to: Warsaw Ghetto
Judenrat operatedIn Warsaw Ghetto
subject linked to: Judenrat (Jewish Council)
Adam Czerniaków placeOfActivity Warsaw Ghetto
Adam Czerniaków placeOfDetention Warsaw Ghetto
Jewish Ghetto Police operatedIn Warsaw Ghetto
Ringelblum Archive locationCreated Warsaw Ghetto
Ringelblum Archive hiddenAt Warsaw Ghetto
Grossaktion Warsaw location Warsaw Ghetto
Grossaktion Warsaw keySite Umschlagplatz in Warsaw Ghetto
linked to: Warsaw Ghetto
Emanuel Ringelblum workLocation Warsaw Ghetto
Pawiak prison locatedIn Warsaw Ghetto area
linked to: Warsaw Ghetto
Irena Sendler workedIn Warsaw Ghetto
German Jews deportedTo Warsaw ghetto
linked to: Warsaw Ghetto
Jüdischer Ordnungsdienst location Warschauer Ghetto
linked to: Warsaw Ghetto
Pawel Frenkel placeOfDeath Warsaw Ghetto
Pawel Frenkel residence Warsaw Ghetto
Mordechai Anielewicz placeOfDeath Warsaw Ghetto
subject linked to: Anielewicz
Dror operatedIn Warsaw Ghetto
ŻOB operatedIn Warsaw Ghetto
ŻOB formedInGhetto Warsaw Ghetto
Stroop dossier locationDocumented Warsaw Ghetto
Stroop dossier relatedTo Warsaw Ghetto
Henryk Iwański placeOfActivity Warsaw Ghetto
ŻZW activeIn Warsaw Ghetto
ŻZW locationOfHeadquarters Warsaw Ghetto
Zivia Lubetkin residence Warsaw Ghetto
former Umschlagplatz area partOf Warsaw Ghetto
World War II atrocities includesEvent Warsaw Ghetto liquidation
linked to: Warsaw Ghetto
Muranów district partOfHistoricalEvent Warsaw Ghetto Uprising area
linked to: Warsaw Ghetto
Janusz Korczak livedIn Warsaw Ghetto
Janusz Korczak deportedFrom Warsaw Ghetto