The Warsaw Ghetto

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The Warsaw Ghetto

• By Nicole Sprowell

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The Warsaw Ghetto

• The largest of all the Jewish ghettos
• was about 94 of Warsaw
• made for the Jews living in Warsaw and the Jews
  being sent there during World War II

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Ghetto Map
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The ghettos

• ghettos were places where the Jews stayed during
  the war
• Hitler and his people forced Jews out of their
  homes and sent them here or concentration camps

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Life in the Ghettos

• Jews were forced to live in the ghetto under
  horrible living conditions
• People were always trying to smuggle in food
• set off from the rest of the cites by a wall
• The wall was made taller with broken glass and
  barbed wire at the top when people would not stop
  trying to smuggle stuff
• Hundreds of people were killed each day, some
  were just left to die in the street

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Destruction of the Warsaw ghetto/ the Warsaw
Ghetto uprising

• 1942, Hitler decided to get rid of all the
  ghettos, and sent all of the people in the
  ghettos to death camps
• People from the Warsaw ghetto realized they were
  being sent to Treblinka, where they were to be
  murdered, and started an organization where
  people refused to go to the camps
• They got together a group of Warsaw ghetto
  fighters and in January 1943 fired on the Germans
  to make their escape
• Germans gave in after a few days and Jews gained
  hope, thanks to victory

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Destruction of the Warsaw ghetto/ The Warsaw
ghetto uprising cont.

• The Jews, and the Germans, prepared for another
  battle
• April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising
  started with the Germans coming to take the Jews
  away for the final deportation
• 750 well armed Germans stormed threw the ghetto
  burning down every building
• May 16 that year the Germans announced the
  uprising over and blew up the great synagogue as
  a sign of victory
• About 300 Germans and 7,000 Jews were killed,
  another 7,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka to
  be killed

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Overview of the ghetto

• overall estimated population decrease was from
  450,000 to 37,000
• about 413,000 deaths
• Thousands of people were left homeless,
  moneyless, and without their families
• said to be the greatest crime in the world

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