On ThisDay 21 September 1942, ‘The Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto’ ended.

On ThisDay 21 September 1942, ‘The Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto’ ended. During this 2 month period over 265,000 Jews were crammed into sealed freight trains and deported to the Treblinka death camp, where they were murdered.

Recalling the Great Deportation, Holocaust survivor Chaim Kaplan recounts in his diary:

“The terrible events have engulfed me… I have no words to express what has happened to us since the day the expulsion was ordered…With one stroke of the pen, the face of Warsaw was changed. They made an end to its peddlers; its beggars and paupers and dawn-and-outers were collected; its stores were closed; its streets were emptied. Everywhere there is the silence of the graveyard.”

Our online exhibition offers insights in to the last moments in the Warsaw ghetto through survivor testimony, photos, and historical analysis. Learn more about the Warsaw ghetto immediately following the Great Deportation here >> https://bit.ly/2O5wc4C