Riot in Warsaw ghetto, 1943 (b/w photo)

Warsaw, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland Inhabitants of the Ghetto in Warsaw are led away by German Soldiers. When the Ghetto was set up in 1940 on only 4 square Km, about 350. 000 Jews lived there. Up until the riot on 19.04. 1943 through hunger, illness and systematic extinction only 60. 000 lived there.40. 000 of them had died in the four weeks of fighting, 5. 000 managed to escape and the last 15. 000 were evacuated and killed in various death camps. Report extracts of the Armed Forces commissioner to extinct the Warsaw ghetto after the capture of the city in September 1939. This report was given as evidence to the International War Tribunal in Nuremberg.