I lived in Warsaw during the Holocaust

... Holocaust Coursework I lived in Warsaw, in Poland, so was one of the first few to experience the Nazi war machine. They reached my city, the capital, after just 6 days of war. My Jewish friends and I hadn't time to take this all in before we discovered that 'our kind' was being hunted out. So, of course eventually my friends & I were herded into ghettos like sheep. In this situation, we were isolated from the outside world; there were high walls on all sides of this small "village", with only a large, Nazi-controlled gate being our means of getting supplies in and rubbish out. It was so cramped; sometimes half-a-dozen families had to live within one small house. Due to such un-hygienic conditions, disease spread like wildfire, with people coming down with water-borne diseases left right and centre. My family & I lived like this for about a year before

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