Death and disease stalks the ghetto

18 August 1941: Mary Berg describes conditions for the Jews of Warsaw

The ghetto wall which imprisoned around 460,000 Jews in Warsaw, the ‘Aryan’ side is on the left.

Around a year after occupying Poland the Nazis had established urban ghettos for the Jews across the country. The largest was in the capital Warsaw where around 30% of the city’s population was crammed into 2.4% of the city area - there were an average of ove…