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The Częstochowa Ghetto was a World War II ghetto set up by Nazi Germany for the purpose of persecution and exploitation of local Jews in the city of Częstochowa during the German occupation of Poland. The approximate number of people confined to the ghetto was around 40,000 at the beginning and in late 1942 at its peak, immediately before ...
The ghetto was established following a day known as Bloody Monday, a day in which the Nazis killed 300 Jewish citizens in its occupation of the city of Częstochowa. [1] The ghetto lasted from its inception on September 3, 1939, to its liberation by the Soviet Red Army in January 1945. [ 1 ]
Henryk Ross photographed the horrors of the ghetto knowing that, if he was caught, he and his family would be killed. A buried box of photos reveals a Jewish photographer's chronicle of life in ...
A child lies on the street in the Warsaw Ghetto, May 1941.Photo by the Wehrmacht Propaganda Company 689, now in German Federal Archives. The liquidation of the Jewish ghettos across occupied Poland was closely connected with the construction of secretive death camps—industrial-scale mass-extermination facilities—built in early 1942 for the sole purpose of murder. [7]
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest ghetto in all of Nazi occupied Europe, with over 400,000 Jews crammed into an area of 3.4 square kilometres (1 + 3 ⁄ 8 square miles), or 7.2 persons per room. [4] The Łódź Ghetto was the second largest, holding about 160,000 inmates.
The Częstochowa massacre, also known as the Bloody Monday, was committed by the German Wehrmacht forces beginning on the 4th day of World War II in the Polish city of Częstochowa, between 4 and 6 September 1939. [2] The shootings, beatings and plunder continued for three days in more than a dozen separate locations around the city. [1]
Between the 1939 invasion of Poland, and the end of World War II, over 90% of Polish Jewry was murdered. Six extermination camps ( Auschwitz , Belzec , Chełmno , Majdanek , Sobibor and Treblinka ) were established in which the mass murder of millions of Polish Jews and various other groups, was carried out between 1942 and 1944.
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