Sudʹba polʹskikh evreev
Nauchno-populi︠a︡rnoe izdanie
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translation: The fate of Polish Jews - Popular science publication
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80 years ago, the Nazis created the largest Jewish ghetto in Warsaw in the territory of occupied Europe. In September 1939, four weeks after the invasion of Polish territory, German troops occupied Warsaw. The Jewish community in Warsaw was the largest in Europe. The 380,000 Jews who lived here made up almost a third of the city's population. From the first days of the occupation, they were brutally persecuted: their homes and property were confiscated, their bank accounts were frozen, they were forced to perform forced labor, and they were forbidden to use public transport.
On October 2, 1940, "Warsaw District Governor" Ludwig Fischer signed an order establishing a "Jewish residential area" based on the Jewish quarter in the northern part of the city. By mid-November, the area was cut off from the outside world by a wall of three and a half meters and barbed wire. Residents of the ghetto, found outside without permission, were threatened with execution on the spot. Four hundred ghettos were established throughout Poland. They were an intermediate station on the way to the death camps.
