THE WARSHAW GHATTO UPRISINGS 1943 MAY 16
THE WARSHAW GHATTO UPRISINGS 1943 MAY 16 Brick wall of the Warsaw Ghetto dividing the Iron-Gate Square , with view of bombed out Lubomirski Palace (left) on the "Aryan" side of the city, May 24, 1941 .The Warsaw Ghetto[5] (German: Warschauer Ghetto, officially Jüdischer Wohnbezirk in Warschau, "Jewish Residential District in Warsaw"; Polish: getto warszawskie) was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Europe during World War II. It was established by the German authorities in November 1940; within the new General Government territory of German-occupied Poland. At its height as many as 460,000 Jews were imprisoned there,[6] in an area of 3.4 km2 (1.3 sq mi), with an average of 9.2 persons per room,[7][8] barely subsisting on meager food rations.[8] From the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews were deported to Nazi concentration camps and mass-killing centers. In the summer of 1942 at least 254,000 Ghetto residents were sent to the Treblinka ex...