"The ghetto was surrounded by high walls, with barbed wire and broken glass on top. There were refugees pouring in from surrounding towns and villages, escorted by German guards. The ghetto was overcrowded. There were 10 to 15 people living in a room. There was malnutrition, starvation, epidemics and disease. Starving children in rags were begging in the streets. 'Give me a piece of bread, or a couple of Groschen. I haven’t eaten for days.''"
Ella Blumenthal
A map of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. For more information and additional maps detailing key facts related to the Warsaw Ghetto and the Uprising, visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum media essay.
In April/May 1943, a small band of Jewish fighters launched the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, holding out against the Germans for more than a month. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the largest and symbolically most important Jewish uprising of World War II.
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From German public state-owned international broadcaster DW (Deutsche Welle), this documentary includes previously unseen footage of everyday life in the Warsaw Ghetto.
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In the fall of 1940, 30 percent of Warsaw's 1.3 million inhabitants were forced into 2.4 percent of the city's area. Archival film footage and eyewitness testimony uncover the horrid conditions and brutal oppression that culminated in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
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Jewish and German photographers immortalized the harsh reality of life in the ghetto, though admittedly from entirely different perspectives.
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Surviving in the ghetto was a daily challenge. The Jews within the ghetto walls lived in deplorable conditions, facing extreme overcrowding, imposed poverty, and rampant starvation.
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