~Last week, a student asked about other ghettos in Warsaw. Here is a map of Poland which shows the major ghettos of Poland during the Holocaust. Warsaw, Lodz, Krakow, and Lublin were the largest of the Polish ghettos. Warsaw was the largest ghetto. Milkweed was set in the Warsaw Ghetto. Most of the ghettos on this map were set up near railroad stations, just as the Warsaw Ghetto was set up near Stawki Station.
~The Jews of Warsaw wore the white armband with the blue star, while all others wore the yellow Star of David.
~Ghettos were set up in almost every country that the Germans invaded in WWII. They were used as staging points to send the Jews to their death in places like Treblinka, Chelmo, Sobibor, Auschwitz, and Majdanek. They were never meant to be permanent.
