The document summarizes everyday life in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1941. It notes that the Nazis established the largest ghetto in Europe in Warsaw, forcing over 375,000 Jews into just 2.4% of the city's area by November 1940. Conditions in the overcrowded ghetto grew worse over time as the population swelled to 450,000 with refugees. Beginning in July 1942, deportations of Jews from the ghetto to the Treblinka death camp commenced, until the Germans ultimately liquidated the ghetto in May 1943 following the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

1. Everyday Life in the
Warsaw Ghetto - 1941

2. • In Warsaw, the capital of Poland, the Nazis established the
largest ghetto in all of Europe.
• On November 16 1940 over 375,000 Jews that lived in
Warsaw were forced inside the area of the ghetto.
• Although a third of the city’s population was Jewish, the
ghetto stood on just 2.4% of the city’s surface area.
• Masses of refugees who had been transported to Warsaw
brought the ghetto population up to 450,000.
• In July 1942 the deportations to the Treblinka death camp
began.
• In May 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising the Germans
liquidated the ghetto.
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3. • Most photos of the Warsaw Ghetto were made by
German soldiers in the Wehrmacht Propagana
Companien.
• The dreadful conditions corroborated their
distorted images of Jews.
• Others took photos at their own initiative.
• Most of the photos in this presentation were taken
by Heinz Jost, who entered the Ghetto on his
birthday, September 19, 1941 and took 150
snapshots.
• Most private albums were not made public for
several decades after the war.
The Photos