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