Group portrait of women and children standing outside in Warsaw before the war.
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Warsaw

In the fall of 1940, German authorities established a ghetto in Warsaw, Poland’s largest city with the largest Jewish population. Almost 30 percent of Warsaw’s population was packed into 2.4 percent of the city's area.

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Women survivors huddled in a prisoner barracks shortly after Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz camp. [LCID: 31450b]

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Learn more about personal experiences during the Holocaust

Blanka Rothschild holds one of her prewar family photographs. [LCID: athbr039]

Timeline of Events

Explore a timeline of events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust.

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How and why was the Holocaust possible?