"A German radio operator soldier, the photographer Willy Georg, entered the Warsaw Ghetto illegally in the summer of 1941, taking with him his Leica camera and four films. Upon being discovered, a military patrol snatched his camera and a reel .Fortunately he was able to hide the other three reels.Some of the photographs taken by this soldier are the ones that we can see below.They would never have seen the light of day if not for his skill.

The Warsaw Ghetto was officially established on October 16, 1940. It was the largest Jewish ghetto implemented by the Nazis in Europe during World War II. All the Jews of Warsaw and the adjacent regions were imprisoned in it. It is estimated that the population of the ghetto was 400,000 people, 30% of the population of the Polish capital, crammed into an area equivalent to 2.4% of the city.

Hunger, disease, and mass deportations reduced this population to just 50,000 people.

In the Warsaw Ghetto, one of the few pockets of resistance led by Jews against the Nazis, the so-called Uprising, took place. On April 19, 1943, armed civilians pushed back and retreat more than 2,000 German soldiers, who had come to the Ghetto to quell some previous pockets of resistance. Finally the Nazis burned all the buildings in which the armed civilians could be, thus suffocating the resistance.

It is estimated that in those days more than 50,000 people were arrested, 7,000 were shot and another 7,000 sent to the Treblinka concentration camp, where they finally died.

This is, very briefly, the sad story of the largest ghetto in Europe, the Warsaw Ghetto, and these are some images of the daily life of those who had to suffer such barbarity in 1941.

Below you can see 30 banned photographs of the Warsaw Ghetto."

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