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Where was the Warsaw Ghetto located?
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Warsaw
Old Town, Warsaw.
The Warsaw Ghetto was located in the city’s old Jewish quarter.12
During the German occupation of Poland in World War II, the Nazi regime enclosed this 840-acre (340-hectare) district, initially with barbed wire and later with a brick wall that stood 10 feet (3 meters) high and stretched 11 miles (18 km) around the perimeter. The area served as a site of forced confinement where the Nazis concentrated the Jewish population of Warsaw and surrounding regions until they were deported to extermination camps, such as Treblinka.12