Jews building the ghetto wall, Warsaw, October 1940

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Outside

 

 

 

 

ON THE WAY TO WARSAW GHETTO, 1940

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

EVERYDAY LIFE AND DEATH IN WARSAW GHETTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unaware countdown to annihilation

 

 

 

 

A Jewish family dwelling

 

 

 

 

A Torah service in secret

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Warsaw Ghetto street vendors

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jewish mandatory white armbands with the Star of David

 

 

 

 

Tallits

 

 

 

 

Jewish policeman in the Warsaw Ghetto, ouside his district headquarters

 

 

 

 

A line of people wait to get a drink of water

 

 

 

 

Something warm to drink

 

 

 

 

Household

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Books

 

 

The Haves and the Starving in Warsaw Ghetto

 

 

 

 

The search

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A young man in the Warsaw Ghetto eats some food.
Ration cards allowed ghetto residents only 300 calories of food daily

 

 

 

 

Jewish children smuggling some food through a hole in the Ghetto wall

 

 

 

 

Jewish children scaling the wall to smuggle some food

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Starvation

 

 

 

 

 

The Dead

 

 

 

 

Bodies of Jews who died from hunger and starvation were collected
from the Ghetto streets and houses and buried in common graves

 

 

 

 

 

A member of Judenrat
(the Jewish council which administered community affairs in the Warsaw Ghetto)
counts the bodies of the victims of starvation and diseases prior to a mass burial

 

 

 

CHILDREN OF ISRAEL IN WARSAW GHETTO

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THE GREAT DEPORTATION TO TREBLINKA DEATH CAMP
July 21, 1942 - September 21, 1942

 

 

 

 

 

Deportation of Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto to the death camp

 

 

 

 

Dr. Janusz Korczak and Jewish children from his orphanage
were sent to their death to Treblinka on August 5, 1942

 

 

 

The March to the Umschlagplatz

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

The Umschlagplatz - The Jewish Last Journey

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Waiting for Treblinka rail box-cars

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jews being herded into the box-cars to Treblinka

 

 

 

 

The bridge over Chlodna Street,
which divided the large ghetto from the small

 

 

 

 

 

The ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto, 1945