Page 18 - Witness: Passing the Torch of Holocaust Memory to New Generations

Jews captured during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in May 1943 are marched to the Umschlagplatz (collection point) for deportation, many of them to Treblinka, where most of Warsaw’s Jews met their end. Shortly after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the Nazis began to corral Jews into ghettos, enclosed areas within cities throughout Eastern Europe. There were at least 1,000 ghettos in German-occupied and annexed Poland and the Soviet Union alone.
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