📅 15 November 1940
German occupation authorities sealed the Warsaw ghetto, confining hundreds of thousands of Jews in a small area behind walls and fences. Starvation, disease, forced labor, and overcrowding were policy...
📅 22 July 1942
German SS and police units, assisted by auxiliaries, began mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center. By September, about 265,000 Jews had been deported and murdered;...
