THE WARSAW GHETTO
THE WARSAW GHETTO WALL
Inside
Jews building the ghetto wall, Warsaw, October 1940
Outside
ON THE WAY TO WARSAW GHETTO, 1940
EVERYDAY LIFE AND DEATH IN WARSAW GHETTO
Nalewki Street, 1942
Krochmalna Street, 1941
Unaware countdown to annihilation
A Jewish family dwelling
A Torah service in secret
Rabbi Judah Zlotnik-Avrida
(the photograph found by Michael Zylberberg in the ghetto ruins)
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
Who is more important a heavy sack or seven year old Shmuel? The sack is more important, because one can shove into it enough potatoes for the entire family for a whole week. You can not see Shmuel behind his heavy sack, thinks Shmuel's mother, if they shoot, they will shoot into the sack. It is a fifth time that little Shmuel squeezes through the small hole in the wall. What does Shmuel thinks about his sack when they shoot...
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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
Rachel is more light than the butterfly, but frozen into the cobble stone she will not fly, though it is a spring. She can not move her swollen feet, her palms are like a cobble stone. She closes her eyes, the blue dress is on the meadow scattered with marigolds, the bare feet are in the grass and a buttterfly is like a song. And you can no longer see Rachel in the pile of dirty rugs, she flew away from the ghetto street. Yvonna Opoczynska-Goldberg, 1999 |
Little Chaim builds the Wailing Wall from the wooden blocks, stronger and higher than the wall of the ghetto on Bonifraterska Street. No one can hear the police dogs barking or the lament of the ghetto street, behind the wall built by Chaim even the best shots can not destroy it, because behind this wall God hears little Chaim weeping for the destroyed temple of his childhood, barbarians did not spare a rag clown with the red nose, a plushy teddy bear, or a wooden swing in the backyard now crowded with other kids. Children's room with the colorful curtains remained on the Bonifraterska Street, little Chaim has only few wooden blocks to build the Wailing Wall.
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(drawing by Roman Kramsztyk, 1942)
"Warsaw Ghetto child beggar" (painting by Maciej Lachur)
THE GREAT DEPORTATION TO TREBLINKA DEATH CAMP
July 21, 1942 - September 21, 1942
German notice calling on Jews to report for deportation, August 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
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