German retribution against Poles who helped Jews
During the Holocaust in Poland, 1939–1945, German occupation authorities engaged in repressive measures against non-Jewish Polish citizens who helped Jews persecuted by Nazi Germany.
Announcement of the governor of the Warsaw District Ludwig Fischer on November 10, 1941, threatening the death penalty for helping Jews.
Jewish men marked with bands and Stars of David. Łódź, 1940
Ordinance of the German President of Warsaw of December 18, 1939, ordering Jews to register their property.
Construction of walls around the Jewish quarter in Warsaw, 1940
The Holocaust in Poland was the ghettoization, robbery, deportation, and murder of Jews in occupied Poland, organized by Nazi Germany. Three million Polish Jews were murdered, primarily at the Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau extermination camps, representing half of all Jews murdered during the Europe-wide Holocaust.
Image: Warsaw Gdansk railway station with Warsaw Ghetto burning, 1943
Image: Lodz Ghetto children deportation to Chelmno
Image: German officer executes Jewish women who survived a mass shooting outside the Mizocz ghetto, 14 October 1942
Image: Stroop Report Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 10
