Seventy-five years ago today, November 16, 1940, the Nazis sealed the Warsaw Ghetto, after moving about 400,000 people into the 1.3 square mile area. The total death toll is estimated to be at least 300,000. At least 254,000 of this number were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp. Average food rations for the residents were 184 calories, as compared to 2613 calories for Germans.
Immediately before the war, Warsaw had a Jewish population of 300,000. It’s estimated that fewer than ten percent survived the war.
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