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Warsaw Ghetto During The Holocaust

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The Holocaust can be described as the prosecution and death of about six million Jews in Europe by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945. Other ethnic groups like pygmies were destroyed as well. The Holocaust started when Hitler became Chancellor in 1933 and passed decree/laws removing Jews as citizens of the country. Overtime when the Nazis occupied majority of Europe, the Jews were forced to move out of their homes to live in specific areas under harsh conditions which are also known as ghettos and were later transferred to the death camps. The ghettos could be described as the Jewish city districts in which the Jews were meant to live in order to be separated from the Non-Jewish population. One of the biggest types of ghettos was the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland where more than 400,000 Jews were crowded into an area of 1.3 square miles and were living in harsh conditions. This was established On October 12 1940 after the decree the establishment of a ghetto in Warsaw. All Jewish residents of Warsaw were supposed to move into a small area, which was eventually sealed by the Nazis from the other citizens in November 1940. "The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and closely guarded to prevent movement between the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw. The end of 1940 found Warsaw Jews confined to a 1.36-square-mile area that was surrounded by a 10-foot wall topped with barbed wire and broken glass. Within the ghetto there was considerable

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