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A precarious sanctuary in Poland

28th March 1943: In Warsaw gentile Poles take enormous risks to provide Jews with a refuge

Mar 28, 2023
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The only images we have of life inside the Warsaw ghetto come from 1941. Conditions had become a great deal worse since then - tens of thousands had died of starvation and disease. Many more had been sent ‘to the east’ - to Treblinka. A female tea seller serving hot drinks to customers in a makeshift cafe in a street market in the ghetto

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