Hope and Despair in the Warsaw Ghetto

7th June 1942: In the face of 'deportations' from which nobody is ever heard of again, only a few are capable of facing up to the dreadful reality

Jun 7

Jewish Ghetto Police guarding the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto, June 1942. This side of the gate and the buildings on the other side of the wall belonged to Polish side.

In the ghetto of Warsaw Chaim A. Kaplan1 continued to maintain his diary, his 'Scroll of Agony', his personal record of life under the Nazis. After enduring a terrible winter during which t…

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Hope and Despair in the Warsaw Ghetto

7th June 1942: In the face of 'deportations' from which nobody is ever heard of again, only a few are capable of facing up to the dreadful reality

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