Everyday humiliations in the Warsaw Ghetto

24th April 1941: It not enough for the SS that the Jews of Poland are imprisoned and starved, they must also be forced to work

Jews mount a truck in the Warsaw ghetto before being taken off for forced labour, May 1941.

Life in the Warsaw Ghetto was marked by unimaginable hardship, suffering, and random acts of violence. Established by the Nazi regime in 1940, the ghetto confined over 400,000 Jewish men, women, and children into a space of just 1.3 square miles, forcing them to l…