Warsaw Ghetto established

22nd October 1940: Tensions rise in the Jewish community in Warsaw as the reality of the Ghetto announced by the Nazis becomes apparent

The Jewish Ghetto within Warsaw, marked in purple.

From the very beginning of the German occupation of Poland in September 1939 the persecution of the Jews had been progressing by ever more restrictive stages¹. The first stage of the occupation of Poland had seen the mass murder of intellectuals, university professors, teachers, priests and others in a po…