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OCR: The Nazis estabiished the Wa rsaw Ghetto in October 1940 in Warsaw, Poland The iargest of ali Jewish ghettos ir World War 11 at its peak contained over 400,000 Jews in only quare miles of space. the ghetto thousa nds of people died each month resuiting from overcrowding, starvation and epidemics. r July 1942. deportations began and by mid-September 250,000 Jews had been shipped to the Treblinka death camp During the spring of 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto was the site one of the iong est and best-organized ghetto uprisings. With only 6 ,000 residents remaining, the ghetto erupted in armed resistance when word reached residents that those Jews already sent for had been murdered in Nazi death camps aimosi month, ghetto occupants fought off a powerfui and well-armed German army Eventually, the Germa ...