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Poland's Jewish community ... The ghetto was established by the German Governor-General Hans Frank on 16 October 1940. Initially, almost 140,000 Jews were moved into ...
The number of Jews in Poland on September 1, 1939, amounted to about 3,474,000 people. [13] In anticipation of the German attack, during the Summer of 1939, Jews and ethnic Poles cooperated preparing anti-tank fortifications. [39] Contrary to many misconceptions, Jews in Poland were not simply victims of the ensuing Holocaust.
Throughout 1940 and 1941, most ghettos were sealed off from the outside, walled off or enclosed with barbed wire, and any Jews found outside them could be shot on sight. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest ghetto in all of Nazi-occupied Europe, with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 3.4 square kilometres (1.3 sq mi), or 7.2 persons per ...
up to 600 Jews Wawer massacre: 26–27 December 1939 Wawer Nazi Germany: 107 7 shot but survived Palmiry massacre: December 1939–June 1941 Palmiry Nazi Germany: 1,700 Poles and Jews Sieklówka massacre December 1939–January 1940 Sieklówka Nazi Germany: 93 Poles [46] Piotrowice massacre 18 January 1940 Piotrowice Nazi Germany: 39 Poles [47]
Construction of walls around the Jewish quarter in Warsaw, 1940. The need to isolate Jews from the rest of the inhabitants of occupied Poland was emphasized by the Memorial on the treatment of people in former Polish territories from a racial and political point of view, drawn up in November 1939 by the NSDAP Office of Racial Policy.
Jewish prisoners of the Gestapo KZ Radogoszcz in Łódź, 1940 The peculiar situation of the Łódź Ghetto prevented armed resistance, which occurred within other ghettos in Nazi-occupied Poland, such as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , the Białystok Ghetto Uprising , the revolt at the Wilno Ghetto , the Częstochowa Ghetto Uprising , or similar ...
Walling-off Świętokrzyska Street seen from Marszałkowska Street on the 'Aryan side' of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940. Poland had a large Jewish population, and according to Davies, more Jews were both killed and rescued in Poland, than in any other nation, the rescue figure usually being put at between 100,000 and 150,000. [113]
Kielce Jews in winter 1939, photographed by a Bahnhof officer. Between the onset of war in September 1939 and March 1940, the Jewish population of Kielce expanded from 18,000, [9] to 25,400 (35% of all residents), [1] with trains of dispossessed Jews arriving under the escort of Ordnungspolizei from the Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany.