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Warsaw Ghetto

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Irena Sendler
Polish resistance fighter and Holocaust rescuer (1910-2008)
Warsaw Ghetto
Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland (1940–1943)
Jan Karski
Polish World War II officer, resistance fighter and diplomat (1914–2000)
Jürgen Stroop
German SS and police general and convicted war criminal (1895-1952)
Warsaw concentration camp
Nazi concentration camp in Warsaw during World War II
Josef Blösche
SS soldier and war criminal (1912–1969)
Umschlagplatz in Warsaw ghetto
Umschlagplatz () was the term used during The Holocaust to denote the holding areas adjacent to railway stations in occupied Poland where Jews from ghettos were assembled for deportation to Nazi death camps. The largest collection point was in Warsaw next to the Warsaw Ghetto. In 1942 between 254,000 – 265,000 Jews passed through the Warsaw Umschlagplatz on their way to the Treblinka extermination camp during Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Holocaust in Poland. Often those awaiting the arrival of Holocaust trains, were held at the Umschlagplatz overnight. Other examples of Umsch
Heinz Auerswald
German member of the SS (1908-1970)
Grossaktion Warsaw
Ferdinand Sammern-Frankenegg
Austrian member of the Nazi party (1897-1944)
Franz Konrad
Nazi Holocaust perpetrator (1906–1952)
Oyneg Shabbos
Jewish underground archive in the Warsaw Ghetto, founded by Emanuel Ringelblum in 1939
Max Fishman
Soviet composer (1915-1985)
Ludwig Hahn
SS officer, War criminal (1908–1986)
Hillel Zeitlin
Polish writer (1871–1942)
Umschlagplatz monument
wall-monument in Warsaw
Central Judaic Library
former library in Warsaw, Poland
Group 13
Jewish collaborationist organization in the Warsaw Ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland, named after its office at 13 Leszno Street, Warsaw, founded in Dec. 1940, led by Abraham Gancwajch, reporting directly to the German Gestapo
Fragments of the ghetto walls in Warsaw
Fragments of walls
Warsaw Ghetto boundary markers
Warsaw Ghetto Museum
Museum of the Warsaw Ghetto in Warsaw
Jewish Hospital of Warsaw
former hospital in Poland
Vladas Zajančkauskas
Convicted Nazi war criminal (1915–2013)
Żagiew
Żagiew (Polish for torch) was an underground magazine published in the Warsaw Ghetto by assimilated Jews.
Bogdan Wojdowski
Polish writer, literary critic, theatre critic and opinion journalist (1930–1994)