Touring the Warsaw Ghetto Area

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January 18th 2008

Published: September 26th 2007

The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in Warsaw during the German Occupation in World War II. Between 1941 and 1943, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the population of the ghetto from an estimated 450,000 to approximately 70,000. In 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto was the scene of the Warsaw Ghetto Upri... Read Full Entry

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Inside the ghetto

Inside the guetto

One of the only remaining piece of wall from the warsaw ghetto

This is the only significant surviving segment of ghetto wall. It formed part of the southern boundary of the Small Ghetto until 20th November 1941. Unlike most of the southern wall of the Small Ghetto, which runs east-west, this segment runs north-south (the photograph was taken facing east) and can be identified on maps as one of the walls marking a small 'Aryan' salient north of Zlota Street and west of the present Aleja Jana Pawla II. It seems likely that this is the eastern wall of this salient, and that this photograph was consequently taken from what was the 'Aryan' side.The wall here is about three metres (10') high, and may have been topped by an additional metre (3') of barbed wire. Many bricks came from buildings destroyed by shelling and air bombing in September 1939. Plaques record the removal of two bricks to the Holocaust Museum in Washington, USA, in 1989 and the visit of the President of Israel in 1992.