![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The head of the Jewish council in Warsaw, Adam Czerniaków, refused to cooperate. The Germans demanded that members of the Jewish council ( Judenrat) assist in organizing the deportations. When the trains arrived in Małkinia, they were diverted along a special rail spur to Treblinka. From there, they forced the Jews to board freight cars bound for Małkinia, on the Warsaw-Białystok rail line. German SS and police personnel used violence to force Jews to march from their homes or places of work to the Umschlagplatz (concentration point). Miserable conditions in the ghetto, deliberately exacerbated by German policies, worsened over time.īetween July and September 1942, German SS and police units, supported by non-German auxiliaries, deported about 265,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to their deaths in the Treblinka killing center. The Germans also deported several hundred Roma (Gypsies) to the Warsaw ghetto.Īt its height, the total population of the Warsaw ghetto exceeded 400,000 people. Between April and July 1942, Jews from the nearby towns east of Warsaw, from Germany, and from German-occupied areas of western Poland were deported there. Between January and March 1941, Jews from smaller communities to the west of Warsaw were deported to the Warsaw ghetto. ![]()
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