Warsaw Ghetto

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Jewish ghetto Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland

The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto established by Nazi Germany during World War II, notorious for its extreme overcrowding, starvation, and the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Jewish ghetto → Nazi ghetto in occupied Poland →
archive	Ringelblum Archive (Oyneg Shabes Archive) →
area	about 3.4 square kilometers →
causeOfDeath	deportation to extermination camps → disease → mass shootings → starvation →
commanderForOppression	Jürgen Stroop →
country	Nazi Germany → Poland (occupied) →
createdBy	German occupation authorities in Poland → Nazi Germany →
dateOfEvent	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising; 19 April 1943 →
deathTollEstimate	hundreds of thousands of Jews →
dissolved	1943 →
dividedInto	large ghetto → small ghetto →
established	October 1940 →
feature	barbed wire → guarded gates →
governedBy	Adam Czerniaków → Judenrat (Jewish Council) →
hasEvent	Grossaktion Warsaw → Warsaw Ghetto Uprising → deportations to Treblinka extermination camp →
knownFor	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising → disease → extreme overcrowding → starvation →
languageUsed	German → Polish → Yiddish →
locatedIn	General Government → German-occupied Poland → Warsaw →
locatedOn	both sides of Chłodna Street (initially) →
mainDeportationDestination	Treblinka extermination camp →
memorial	Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw → POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (adjacent site) →
notableFigure	Emanuel Ringelblum → Mordechai Anielewicz →
partOf	Holocaust → World War II →
policedBy	German Order Police → Jewish Ghetto Police →
populationPeak	over 400000 Jews →
resistanceOrganization	Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) → Jewish Military Union (ŻZW) →
sealed	16 November 1940 →
subjectOf	Stroop Report →
surroundedBy	wall →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
General Government → General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland) →	contains
Jewish Military Union → Warsaw Ghetto Uprising →	location
Jewish Combat Organization →	activeIn
Polish Jews →	confinedIn
Siege of Warsaw (1939) ("Warsaw Ghetto establishment") →	followedBy
Okopowa Street Jewish Cemetery ("Jewish community of Warsaw") →	foundedBy
Stroop Report →	locationOfEventDescribed
Żegota ("Warsaw Ghetto surroundings") →	operatedIn
Mordechai Anielewicz →	placeOfDeath
Zacharias Finkelstein →	residence
Mordechai Anielewicz →	residenceDuringEvent
Stroop Report →	topic
Treblinka →	transportedFrom