The Warsaw ghetto was the small area of Warsaw Polish Jews were forced to move to after the Germans conquered Poland in 1939. Entire families were crowded into single rooms and were fortunate if they had communal washing facilities. Their stay was relatively short before the residents were sent to extermination camps.
The housing consisted mainly of old and run down appartments blocks. The Warsaw Ghetto became desperately overcrowded as Jews from surrounding areas were crammed in. At one stage people had to live ten to a room!
A slum
For the most famous of these, look for the Warsaw Ghetto.
Warsaw Ghetto was created in 1940.
The Warsaw Ghetto was built in November 16, 1940
In Warsaw, Poland.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising didn't actually occur in a camp. It occurred in the Warsaw Ghetto. For more on the Warsaw Ghetto, check out the link below. Also - please don't confuse the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April 1943 with the much bigger Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
Warsaw, it was the largest Jewish ghetto of all.
The Warsaw ghetto was created to make a place to concentrate the Jews of the region.
No, the Warsaw Ghetto was mostly destroyed during World War II. Today, there is a memorial on the site of the former ghetto.
they smelt horable like dead people
The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto established in Poland. the total of Jews that can be crowded in is about 450,000 Jews. They were crowded into an area of 1.4 square miles that was the Warsaw ghetto.
See the related link for a site with an interactive map of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Warsaw Ghetto was destroyed at the end of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April 1943. The site (or part of it) was later used as a concentration camp, but very little is known about it. By January 1945 the Soviet Army was in Warsaw.