Deportations to and from the Warsaw Ghetto — Historical Film Footage

Jewish deportees from Magdeburg in the Warsaw ghetto

Warsaw, Poland, 1942
[Silent, 2:02]

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Beginning in 1941, the Germans deported Jews in Germany to the occupied eastern territories. At first, they deported thousands of Jews to ghettos in Poland and the Baltic states. Those deported would share the fate of local Jews. Later, many deportation transports from Germany went directly to the extermination camps in occupied Poland. In this footage, a German propaganda unit films recent arrivals from Magdeburg, Germany, in a collection center run by the Jewish council in the Warsaw ghetto. In July 1942, the Nazis began mass deportations of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the nearby Treblinka extermination camp.