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The Warsaw ghetto was officially established on October 2, 1940 and sealed on November 16, 1940. At one point, the ghetto held over 500,000 Jews. The first wave of mass deportations took place between July 22, 1942 and September 12, 1942. A second wave of deportations, meant to clear the ghetto, began January 18, 1943 but was suspended after four days due to armed resistance. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began on April 19, 1943, in response to renewed efforts to deport the remaining Jews and was led by the commander of the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB), Mordecai Anielewicz. The Germans declared the ghetto liquidated on May 16, 1943, although fighting continued after that date and some Jews remained in bunkers within the razed ghetto area until at least January 1944. (en-US)

Fonte

Pilichowski, Czeslaw. Obozy hitlerowskie na ziemiach polskich 1939-1945: Informator encyklopedyczny = Nazi Camps in Poland 1939-1945: Dictionary and Encyclopedia. Warszawa: Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe Warszawa, 1979. (4 fold maps).

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• Varsavia (Polonia : Voivodship)