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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

    Holocaust Encyclopedia

  • 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. 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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  • 14. 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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  • 15. 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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  • 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

    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. Leah Hammerstein Silverstein describes the aftermath of the Holocaust and the search for survivors

    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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  • 24. Raszka (Roza) Galek Brunswic describes a roundup in the Warsaw ghetto and her escape from deportation

    Roza's family moved to Warsaw in 1934. She had just begun college ... Warsaw ghetto, where her parents were shot during a roundup. Roza escaped and went into hiding. From her

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  • 25. Leah Hammerstein Silverstein describes bombings in Praga and Warsaw after the outbreak of World War II

    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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