Warsaw Ghetto (1940-1942)

Horse-drawn carriages and bicycle taxis pass through the gates of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Displaced persons entering the ghetto on a bicycle taxi.

An old man walks down a ghetto street.

People on the streets of the ghetto, children and teenagers beg, standing on sidewalks and at the entrances of houses.

People in tattered clothes on one of the ghetto streets.

A woman with a baby in her arms among passersby on one of the ghetto streets.

A view of one of the ghetto residential buildings, windows with broken panes.

Everyday life and daily life of the inhabitants of the Warsaw Ghetto.

Residents of the common room sit in the mud on wooden trestle beds, try to cook food, lie under torn blankets.

Emaciated people under a blanket.

Mothers with children emaciated from hunger, huddled in the corners of the room.

Everyday life of children in the Warsaw Ghetto: an older brother goes in search of food.

A girl searches for lice in her younger sister's hair.

Small children sit on the sidewalk.

A dancing girl in torn clothes and shoes.

A German soldier leads children who tried to smuggle vegetables into the ghetto.

The soldier searches the children and throws the vegetables onto the asphalt.

Street vendors selling scraps on one of the ghetto streets; people sit on a torn mattress against the wall of a house.

Starving women from the Warsaw Ghetto with their hair cut off.

Emaciated men take off their clothes and give them to be fried.

Haircuts for men and teenagers.

Inspection of hair for lice; the emaciated body of a teenager with a swollen belly and feet.

A corpse on one of the ghetto sidewalks.

Gravediggers place the corpse in a coffin they brought.

Placing the coffin on a handcart.

Transporting the coffin with the body of the deceased on a handcart.

The naked body of a girl who died of starvation lies against the wall of a house.

Removal of corpses from the streets of the ghetto.

Removal of corpses on handcarts.

Jewish clergy at a dug mass grave, lowering a corpse into the grave along a wooden chute.

Filling the grave.

German soldiers escort detained underground members.

A sign above the entrance to the German police station.

Preparations for the execution of the condemned.

The faces of men sentenced to death (panorama).

A sign at the entrance to the Warsaw Ghetto Judenrat (government office) in both German and Hebrew.

Members of the Judenrat enter the building.

Judenrat Chairman Adam Czerniakow holds a meeting.

Jewish police officers on duty, faces of police officers.

Morning roll call of police officers.

Police officers march in formation.

Document check at the gate at one of the entrances to the ghetto.

A police officer drives children away from the gate with a baton.

A sign for a prison in the ghetto.

Arrested people in a common cell.

Arrested women and children destined for concentration camps.

The face of an emaciated teenager.

Police officers drive adults and children out the doors, prodding them with batons.

Prisoners walk in a circle during exercise.

A Jewish policeman walks along a line of arrested adults and children.

Faces of those arrested.