8 - Warsaw Ghetto + Einsatgrupen Flashcards
How was the warsaw ghetto formed??
Built and paid for by jews - 1940
10 feet high walls
400,000
How big was the ghetto?
30% of the population was forced into 2.4% of the city
What was life like in the ghetto??
Really bad. Hunger, disease and malnutrition were really common and Typhus outbreak made this worse
1940-1941 - 100,000 died and in total 500,00 died
Jews were on 300 calories a day, Germans on 2310 a day
What was the einsatzgruppen??
Kill squads formed in 1940-41 aimed to eliminate
Communist officials
Red Army Commissars
Partisans
‘Jewish-Bolshevist Intelligentsia’
How many died due to einsatzgruppen??
500,000 jews in June - July 1940-41 most russian jews
What is the past of the einzsatgruppen??
Was active pre 1941 ( Anschluss ) - Finding and killing austrian jews
4 groups composed of 600-1000 each
What were the kill counts of differant groups??
Group C killed 33,000 across 2 days in Babi Yar ( Kiev )
Group A killed 250,000 in 1941
Group B killed 40,000 in same period as A
