The Warsaw Ghetto The Warsaw Ghetto The largest

The Warsaw Ghetto • The largest of all the Jewish ghettos was about 94%

The ghettos • ghettos were places where the Jews stayed during the war •

Life in the Ghettos • Jews were forced to live in the ghetto under

Destruction of the Warsaw ghetto/ the Warsaw Ghetto uprising • 1942, Hitler decided to

Destruction of the Warsaw ghetto/ The Warsaw ghetto uprising cont. • The Jews, and

Overview of the ghetto • overall estimated population decrease was from 450, 000 to

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The Warsaw Ghetto

The Warsaw Ghetto • The largest of all the Jewish ghettos was about 94% of Warsaw

Ghetto Map

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

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

Destruction of the Warsaw ghetto/ the Warsaw Ghetto uprising • 1942, Hitler decided to get rid of all the ghettos; he 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 gathered 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

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

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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