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In 1942, the Nazis initiated massive deportations of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto as part of the "final solution to the Jewish question," or the Holocaust. The primary destination for these individuals was the Treblinka extermination camp, located approximately 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Warsaw.1
Beginning on July 22, 1942, more than 250,000 Jews were deported from the Warsaw Ghetto to Treblinka over a two-month period to be murdered in gas chambers. In total, it is estimated that some 312,000 Jews from the ghetto were sent to their deaths in 1942 alone. These actions were part of Operation Reinhard, a systematic Nazi effort to exterminate the Jewish population of occupied Poland.21