NAZIS SEAL WARSAW GHETTO
Warsaw, Poland (JFK+50) On November 15, 1940, the Warsaw ghetto was ordered sealed by German authorities occupying Poland. It was the largest and most populated of the ghettos with 350,000 Jews living in an area of 1.3 square miles.
Beginning in July 1942, Jews were deported from the Warsaw ghetto to concentration camps such as Treblinka*. Before that process began, the population of the ghetto neared a half-million persons.
A 9.8 foot wall topped by barbed wire was built to surround the ghetto. The average daily food allowance for the Jewish population was 177 calories a day, but 80% of the food consumed in the ghetto came from the black market.
The Warsaw ghetto was demolished in May 1943 following uprisings. Total deaths associated with the ghetto are estimated at 392,000.
*Treblinka was a Nazi extermination camp in Poland located in a forest NE of Warsaw. It functioned as part of the deadliest phase of Hitler's 'Final Solution'. As many as 900,000 Jews died in its gas chambers.
SOURCE
"Warsaw Ghetto Sealed," United States Holocaust Museum, Timeline of Events, www.ushmm.org/
