1. By Lara & Jillian

2. Warsaw Poland was the capital of Poland and had a big Jewish population.

3. German officials ordered a Jewish council under the leadership of Adam Czerniaków He was forced to manage the soon-to-be established ghetto and to enforce German orders

4. On October 12, 1940 the Germans established the ghetto in Warsaw All of the Jewish people were forced to live in the ghetto The ghetto was closed off from the rest of the city

6. Enclosed by a wall over 10 feet tall topped with barbed wire There were over 400,000 Jews living there It was an area of 1.3 square miles with an average of over 7.2 people per room

7. The Jews suffered immensely from exposure, infectious diseases, and starvation Widespread smuggling of medicines and food into the ghetto helped keep the death rate from rising.

8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOom3eCYX1o

9. From July 22 until September 12, 1942 the German SS and police units carried out mass deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka killing centre

10. The camp was divided into 3 sections: the reception area, the living area, and the killing area The Jewish people were forced to run naked to the gas chambers (in the killing area) falsely labeled as showers Once inside carbon monoxide was released into the chamber, killing those inside Approximately 35,000 Jews were murdered

11. In January 1943, the SS and police units came back to Warsaw to deport the remaining Jews in the ghetto The Jews were aware of what lied ahead at the Treblinka Killing Centre so they resisted deportation with the use of weapons smuggled into the ghetto The SS and police force ended operations and withdrew

12. On April 19th 1943, a new SS and police force came back and attempted to deport the remaining Jews to forced labor camps The Jews fought back and the authorities suffered many casualties The operation was ended on May 16th

13. Jews continued to hide themselves and would occasionally attack German police officers on patrol 20,000 of the Jews in the Warsaw continued to live in hiding On August 1 st 1944, the Polish Home Army, an underground resistance army fought against the Germans to try and free Warsaw

14. The Soviets tried to assist the Polish Home Army but failed in their attempt The Germans treated the Home Army and Polish civilians as prisoners of war They were sent to concentration camps in the Reich During the uprising over 166,000 people lost their lives Soviet troops returned on January 17 1945, and freed Warsaw

15. Ringelblum was a Warsaw based historian He founded a covert organization that took an accurate record of events taking place in Poland This record was known as “Oneg Shabbat”

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