The Warsaw Ghetto (German: Ghetto Warschau; Polish: getto warszawskie) was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. It was established in the Polish capital between October and November 16, 1940, in the territory of the General Government of German-occupied Poland, with over 400,000 Jews from the vicinity residing in an area of 3.4 km2 (1.3 sq mi). From there, at least 254,000 Ghetto residents were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp over the course of two months in the summer of 1942.

The death toll among the Jewish inhabitants of the Ghetto, between deportations to extermination camps, "Großaktion Warschau", the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the subsequent razing of the ghetto, is estimated to be at least 300,000.

People of the Warsaw Ghetto:

Tosia Altman, Mordechaj Anielewicz, Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum, Adam Czerniaków, Yitzhak Gitterman, Itzhak Katzenelson, Janusz Korczak, Simon Pullman, Emanuel Ringelblum, Kalonymus Kalman Shapira, Lidia Zamenhof, Nathalie Zand, Adolf Berman, Icchak Cukierman, Marek Edelman, Jack P. Eisner, Ruben Feldschu, Bronisław Geremek, Martin Gray, Mietek Grocher, Alexander J. Groth, Ludwik Hirszfeld, Zivia Lubetkin, Uri Orlev, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Sol Rosenberg, Simcha Rotem, Władysław Szpilman, Menachem Mendel Taub, Dawid Wdowiński.

Music by: Andrzej Kurylewicz "Polskie drogi"

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