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The Warsaw Ghetto - Coggle Diagram
The Warsaw Ghetto
Living Conditions
Nazi authorities severely restricted food, medical supplies, and sanitation, intending to destroy the population through deliberate starvation, overcrowding, and disease
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Disease: Typhus epidemics ravaged the population due to lack of sanitation and sub-zero winter temperatures.
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Establishment & Scale
Mass Forced Relocation: Over 138,000 Jewish residents were forced to move into the designated 1.3-square-mile zone within weeks, while roughly 113,000 non-Jewish Poles were forced to vacate the area
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Sealing the Area: The ghetto was officially sealed off behind walls and barbed wire on November 15, 1940, turning it into a massive, overcrowded prison that held over 400,000 Jews at its peak
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Nuremberg Laws
Reich Citizenship Law: This stripped German Jews of their citizenship, reclassifying them as "subjects of the state" and removing their basic political rights.
Law for the Protection of German Blood: This banned marriages and extramarital relations between Jews and Germans to maintain what the Nazi regime called racial purity.