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1. Fall of Warsaw
German troops reached parts of Warsaw on September 8 and 9, 1939. During the German siege of ... Warsaw, the city sustained heavy damage from air attacks and artillery shelling. Warsaw surrendered on
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2. German forces enter Warsaw
overran Polish border defenses and approached Warsaw, Poland's capital city. Warsaw suffered heavy air ... shows German forces entering Warsaw amidst the destruction caused by their bombardment of the city.
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3. Warsaw Polish uprising
uprising in Warsaw against the German occupiers. Although the Western
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4. Conditions in the Warsaw ghetto
After the Germans established the Warsaw ghetto in October 1940, conditions deteriorated rapidly ... German food ration for Warsaw ghetto inhabitants amounted to less than 10 percent of the ration for a
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5. Conditions in the Warsaw ghetto
The Nazis sealed the Warsaw ghetto in mid-November 1940. German-induced overcrowding and food ... Warsaw was packed into 2.4 percent of the city's area. The Germans set a food ration for Jews at just 181
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6. Conditions in the Warsaw ghetto
The Nazis sealed the Warsaw ghetto in mid-November 1940. German-induced overcrowding and food ... Warsaw was packed into 2.4 percent of the city's area. The Germans set a food ration for Jews at just 181
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7. Prison in the Warsaw ghetto
After the Germans established the Warsaw ghetto in 1940, the Jewish council in Warsaw became
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8. German victory parade in Warsaw
was short and decisive. Warsaw, the capital of Poland, surrendered on September 27. In early October ... Adolf Hitler visited Warsaw to review his forces. This footage shows victorious German army units
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9. Daily life in the Warsaw ghetto
bridge connected areas of the Warsaw ghetto to prevent Jews from entering the streets that
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10. Jewish deportees from Magdeburg in the Warsaw ghetto
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 killing center.
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11. Abraham Lewent describes conditions in the Warsaw ghetto
Like other Jews, the Lewents were confined to the Warsaw ghetto
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12. Felix Horn describes a hiding place in Warsaw
escaped and hid, eventually fleeing to the Warsaw ghetto, where Felix and ... Lucine were married. They escaped to the "Aryan" side of Warsaw and obtained false papers. Felix worked
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13. Leah Hammerstein Silverstein describes starvation in the Warsaw ghetto
Leah grew up in Praga, a suburb of Warsaw, Poland. She was active in the Ha-Shomer ha-Tsa ... forced to live in the Warsaw ghetto, which the Germans sealed off in
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14. Adam Czerniakow, chairman of the Jewish council in Warsaw
[This video is silent] German forces entered Warsaw in September 1939. The next month ... a member of Warsaw's old Jewish Community Council, to lead it. Here, for German newsreels, a German
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15. Mieczyslaw Madejski describes battle during the Warsaw Polish uprising
forced labor at a BMW plant in Warsaw. He escaped, and participated in ... the Warsaw Polish uprising in August 1944. After the uprising, he left
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16. Abraham Lewent describes hunger and death in the Warsaw ghetto
Like other Jews, the Lewents were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In 1942, as
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17. Norbert I. Swislocki describes fleeing from Warsaw with his mother
1939. He and his mother were in Warsaw; his father had been drafted into
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18. Abraham Lewent describes food shortages after the invasion of Warsaw
Like other Jews, the Lewents were confined to the Warsaw ghetto
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19. Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes smuggling activities in the Warsaw ghetto
active in the Warsaw ghetto underground as a member of the Jewish Fighting ... Organization (ZOB). In December 1942, she was smuggled out to the Aryan, Polish side of Warsaw to try to obtain
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20. Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed describes reactions after the Warsaw ghetto uprising
active in the Warsaw ghetto underground as a member of the Jewish Fighting ... Organization (ZOB). In December 1942, she was smuggled out to the Aryan, Polish side of Warsaw to try to obtain
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21. Yonia Fain describes leaving Warsaw after the German invasion of Poland
Warsaw. They fled to Brest-Litovsk in eastern Poland, occupied by Soviet forces in mid-September 1939
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22. Meri Nowogrodzki describes fleeing from Warsaw to Vilna in December 1939
Meri and her family lived in Warsaw at the time of the German ... in Warsaw during the war. She survived in hiding and by using false papers to avoid arrest by the
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23. Benjamin (Ben) Meed describes Warsaw after the German occupation in 1939 and first experiencing antisemitism
Warsaw, Ben decided to escape to Soviet-occupied eastern Poland. However, he soon decided to return to ... his family, then in the Warsaw ghetto. Ben was assigned to a work detail outside the ghetto, and
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24. Abraham Lewent describes performing forced labor in Warsaw and increased Polish antisemitism
Like other Jews, the Lewents were confined to the Warsaw ghetto. In 1942, as
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25. Benjamin (Ben) Meed describes the burning of the Warsaw ghetto during the 1943 ghetto uprising
Warsaw, Ben decided to escape to Soviet-occupied eastern Poland. However, he soon decided to return to ... his family, then in the Warsaw ghetto. Ben was assigned to a work detail outside the ghetto, and
