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1943

Warsaw, Poland

The Wall of ghetto in Warsaw - Building on Nazi-German order August 1940

The Wall of ghetto in Warsaw - Building on Nazi-German order August 1940 — Warsaw, Poland

Warsaw Ghetto (1940-1943) during the German occupation of Poland: Construction of Ghetto wall across Świętokrzyska street near intersection with Marszałkowska street. In the back "Magazyn Bławatny" store of Jan Tarnowski & Co. at Marszałkowska 133 street. This is not the final location of the wa

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an uprising by the Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps in 1943. It was the largest single revolt by Jews against the Nazis during World War II.

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