ABSTRACT
The ghettos in Lodz and Warsaw were created in 1940. They were the largest in Europe. Depending on the year, the Warsaw ghetto contained anywhere from three hundred fifty thousand to nearly half a million Jews. Over two hundred thousand lived in the Lodz ghetto. History has written its own commentary to all of this. The Warsaw ghetto ceased to exist after the uprising in April 1943. The Lodz ghetto lasted until the fall of 1944. It was there that the greatest number of Jews managed to survive. During World War II, the Germans created ghettos not to separate the Jews from the rest of society, but to make it possible to settle the “Jewish question” once and for all—in other words, to exterminate an entire people. The Litzmannstadt ghetto was completely isolated from the rest of the Aryan world.
