Warsaw is a city whose history has chapters impregnated with terror. You can still find these scars on the city map as a reminder of what the locals experienced.

The Warsaw Ghetto is the most terrible stigma of the Holocaust. It was the largest Jewish ghetto, occupying more than 300 hectares. It was created in Warsaw in 1940: Jews from all over the country were brought here to be later sent to death camps. In the first year of World War II, the ghetto counted more than 450,000 people, 37% of the citizens of Warsaw. By the time of its liquidation, in 1943, only 37,000 remained alive.

The Nazis created such ghettos in many European countries. In their opinion, Jews were carriers of various diseases, and isolating them in this way could save the non-Jewish population from outbreaks of diseases and epidemics.

Each area where a ghetto was created was by default proclaimed a quarantine zone. At first, leaving the ghetto without special permission was punished by year-long imprisonment. On November 1, 1941, the Nazis began to shoot for an attempt of unauthorized leave. And on November 16 of the same year, the ghetto was fenced off with a high wall not to let anyone leave this terrible place.

In 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto saw a major armed uprising, which the Nazis suppressed most brutally: 7,000 people were shot, 6,000 were burned alive, 15,000 people were sent to an extermination camp.

When the ghetto was destroyed, it was as if flattened to the ground. Now only a few buildings and a fragment of the thick brick wall that fenced the quarter remind of this terrible place.

Today, the surviving sections of the wall are located at the streets Sienna 55, Walicow 11, and Zlota 62, where you can see memorial plaques. Reminding of the borders of the atrocious quarter, special signs appear almost along the entire perimeter.