Who Am I? What is My Name Part IV – The Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. It was established in Warsaw between October and November 16, 1940, sealed off from the rest of the city by 10 foot high walls topped with barbed wire and glass. Over 400,000 Jews from the vicinity resided in an area of 1.3 sq mi for a population density of 308,000 residents per sq mi. To give some meaning to these numbers, the United States has an average density of about 90 residents per sq mi; the currently most densely populated city on earth, Manila, has about 111,000 residents per sq mi. Starvation was [...]