Warsaw bounderies

GERMAN TROOPS ENTERED WARSAW

• On October 12, 1940 the Germans formed a decreed that establishment a ghetto in Warsaw.
• The decree required all Jewish residents of Warsaw to move into the ghetto
• German authorities sealed off the rest of the city in November 1940

THE WALL

• The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high
• At the top was barbed wire
• Heavily guarded to prevent movement between the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw

THE GHETTO

• Established in Poland capital on October
• Residents lived in an area of 1.3 square miles, with an average of 7 people to a single room.
• Over 400,00 Jewish citizens lived here
• Warsaw was the second largest city in the world at that time
• Jews made up 30% of the population

FOOD

• Food rationed to the ghetto by the German civilian authorities were not enough for people to live on
• In 1941 the average Jew in the ghetto only ate on 1,125 calories a day.
• Between 1940 and mid-1942 83,000 Jews died of starvation and disease.

TREBLINKA KILLING CENTER

• From July 22 to September 12, 1942 mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center took place
• During this period, the Germans deported about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka
• Approximately 35,000 Jews were murdered inside the ghetto during the operation.

THE UPRISING BEGINS

• In January 1943 police units returned to Warsaw,
• Their goal was to deport 70,000-80,000 Jews in the ghetto to forced-labor camps in Lublin District
• Many of the Jews believed that the police would deport them to the Treblinka killing center
• Many Jews resisted deportation, some of them using small arms smuggled into the ghetto.
• On April 19 1943 the police force came back to seize the rest of the Jews

ENDING OF THE UPRISING

• The Jews organized resistance in the first days of the inflicting casualties on the well-armed and equipped police units.
• the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa; AK), a non-Communist underground resistance army helped with the resistant
• The police deported approximately 42,000 Warsaw ghetto survivors captured during the uprising
• At least 7,000 Jews died fighting in the ghetto, while the police sent another 7,000 to the Treblinka killing center.
• From 400,00 to 11,500 Jews survived the ghetto, the resistances and the deportation