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The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish Ghettos established by Nazi Germany in the General Government during The Holocaust in World War II . Between 1940 and 1943, Starvation , Disease and Deportation s to Concentration Camps and Extermination Camps dropped the population of the Ghetto from an estimated 450,000 to approximately 70,000. In 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto was the scene of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising , one of the first mass uprisings against Nazi occupation in Europe. HISTORY Ghetto under the German occupation The Warsaw Ghetto was established by the German Governor-General Hans Frank on October 16 , 1940 . At this time, the population of the Ghetto was estimated to be 440,000 people, about 37% of the population of Warsaw. However, the size of the Ghetto was about 4.5% of the size of Warsaw. Nazis then closed off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world on November 16 th that year, building a wall. During the next year and a half, Jews and ) and starvation kept the inhabitants at about the same number. Average food rations in 1941 for Jews in Warsaw were limited to 253 kcal, compared to 2,325 kcal for Gentile Poles and 5,613 kcal for German people. The life in the ghetto was Chronicle d by the '' Oyneg Shabbos '' group. In 1942 Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski reported to the Western governments on the situation in the Ghetto and on the extermination camps. Over 100,000 of the Ghetto's residents died due to rampant disease or starvation, as well as random killings, even before the Nazis began massive deportations of the inhabitants from the Ghetto's '' Umschlagplatz '' to the Treblinka Extermination Camp . Between Tisha B'Av , July 23 , 1942, and Yom Kippur , September 21, 1942, about 254,000 Ghetto residents were sent to Treblinka and murdered there. By the end of 1942, it was clear that the deportations were to their deaths, and many of the remaining Jews decided to fight.See the US Holocaust Museum [http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/wgupris.htm "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising" Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the destruction of the Ghetto See Also: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising On and ŻZW resistance organizations took control of the Ghetto, building shelters and fighting posts and operating against Jewish collaborators. During the next three months, all inhabitants of the Ghetto prepared for what they realized would be a final struggle. The final battle started on the eve of Passover , April 19 , 1943 , when the large Nazi force entered the ghetto. After initial setbacks, the Germans systematically burned the ghetto block by block, rounding up or killing any Jew they could capture. Significant resistance ended on April 23 1943 , and the German operation officially ended in mid-May, symbolically culminated with the demolition of the Great Synagogue Of Warsaw on May 16 , 1943 . According to the official report, at least 56,000 people were killed on spot or deported to Nazi concentration and death camps, mostly to Treblinka. MAP PEOPLE Casualties
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