In late September 1939... Heydrich began to place all Polish Jews in ghettos, where they could slowly die of hunger and disease. The Warsaw ghetto was the largest of these segregated areas established by the Nazis in Poland. In the summer of 1940 Heydrich, using the excuse that the spread of typhus had to be contained, set up a special section 11 miles in circumference enclosed by a brick wall 10 feet high. In September 1940 more than 80,000 gentile Poles living in the "infected area" were ordered to leave, and the next month about 140,000 Jews living elsewhere in the city were moved in with the 240,000 still in the ghetto. Some 360,000 Jews, a third of Warsaw's population, were herded into a 3.5-square-mile area. 300 to 400 died daily... More than 43,000 starved to death during the first year, and 37,000 in the first nine months of 1942. ...Mass deportations to the gas chambers at Treblinka began. In two months 300,000 Jews were eliminated. ...Fewer than 100 escaped, and of those, only a handful survived the war. Taken from the ... Encyclopedia of the Third Reich, by Dr. Louis L. Snyder, Professor of History, The City College and The City University of New York. Paragon House, New York, 1989. ISBN 1-55778-144-3 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Deportations to Treblinka - The District of Warsaw Date of Deportation Town Number of Deportees ------------------------------------------------------------------- Warsaw County ------------------------------------------------------------------- July 22-Aug. 28, 1942 Warsaw 199,500 September 3-12 52,000 September 21 2,200 Jan. 18-22, 1943 6,000 April 19 - May 15 15,000 (In the ghetto there were over 100,000 Jews expelled from the counties of Grojec, Lowicz, Skierniewice, and Sochaczew-Blonie in February-March 1941.) August 19-20, 1942 Falenica 6,500 Otwock 7,000 Rembertow 1,800 Ludwisin 3,000 Radzymin 3,000 Wolomin 2,200 Jadow 700 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Garwolin County ------------------------------------------------------------------- September 27 Laskarzew 1,240 October 2 Parysow 3,440 Sobienie-Jeziory 3,680 Sobolew 1,640 Zelechow 10,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Minsk-Mazowiecki County ------------------------------------------------------------------- August 21-22 Minsk-Mazowiecki 6,120 September 15-27 Kaluszyn 6,000 Kolbiel 1,000 Mrozy Kuflew 1,000 Siennica 700 Stanislawow 700 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Siedlce County ------------------------------------------------------------------- August 22-24, September 26, November 30 Siedlce 11,700 August 22 Losice 5,500 Mordy 3,800 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sokolow-Wegrow County ------------------------------------------------------------------- September 22-25 Sokolow-Podlaski 5,800 Wegrow 8,300 Kosow-Lacki 1,100 Sterdyn 1,100 Stoczek 2,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Excerpted from.... BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death Camps Indiana University Press - Yitzhak Arad, 1987. ISBN 0-253-3429-7 ----------------------------------------------------------------