Warsaw Ghetto, ca. 1940
Warsaw, Poland, ca. 1940. Wall sealing off the Warsaw Ghetto.
Soon after the Nazis invaded Poland, they established ghettos in which to imprison the Jewish population. Jews were forced into small areas in towns and cities where they lived in overcrowded conditions and suffered from hunger, disease, and acts of violence by the occupiers and their henchmen. One of the largest ghettos was established on November 16, 1940, in Warsaw. This is part of the wall, at Okopowa Street, that sealed the ghetto off from the rest of the city.
