Warsaw Ghetto
Walled Jewish quarter
The Warsaw Ghetto was a walled-off district in Nazi-occupied Warsaw where Jews were confined from 1940 to 1943—the largest of the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Europe.
Nearly half a million people were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles, with mass starvation and deportations to death camps.
The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in which Jewish fighters resisted German troops for nearly a month, became a symbol of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.
Organized resistance to power
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
Wehrmacht · Treblinka · starvation · typhus · wall · liquidation · roundup · yellow star
Organized resistance to power
- bunkersFortified underground chambers
- fightersThose who engage physically
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
- smugglingIllegal covert transport
barricades · weapons · revolt · insurgents · tunnels · Molotov cocktails · last stand · self-defense
Systematic mistreatment of groups
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- typhusLouse-transmitted bacterial infection
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
death · disease · poverty · hunger · orphans · forced labor · humiliation · despair
Structure honoring someone remembered
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- plaqueInscribed memorial tablet
- tributeOffering of respect
ceremony · legacy · survivors · testimony · documentation
uprising
Organized resistance to power
- NaziGerman fascist party member
- occupationOne's regular paid work
- deportationLegal expulsion from country
smuggling · Wehrmacht · Treblinka · starvation · typhus · wall · liquidation · roundup · yellow star · armband
uprising
Organized resistance to power
- bunkersFortified underground chambers
- fightersThose who engage physically
- defianceOpen resistance to authority
smuggling · barricades · weapons · revolt · insurgents · tunnels · Molotov cocktails · last stand · self-defense · underground
persecution
Systematic mistreatment of groups
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- typhusLouse-transmitted bacterial infection
- overcrowdingCapacity exceeded dangerously
deportation · death · disease · poverty · hunger · orphans · forced labor · humiliation · despair · mass graves
monument
Structure honoring someone remembered
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- commemorationAct of honoring memory
- plaqueInscribed memorial tablet
tribute · ceremony · legacy · survivors · testimony · documentation
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- Ashkenazi JewsAshkenazi, Ashkenazi Jews, Yiddish, shtetls, Hasidic
- Polish JewsAuschwitz, shtetl, Yiddish, synagogues, Jewish cemetery
Warsaw GhettoSweden
Scandinavian country, capital Stockholm
safe haven · refuge · sanctuary · Switzerland · neutral territory
Warsaw GhettoAuschwitz-Birkenau
Nazi extermination complex
Treblinka · concentration camp · extermination camp · death camp · labor camp
Warsaw Ghettoliberation
Release from constraint
Allied victory · survival · rescue · Schindler's List · Kindertransport
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