Jewish mother and child in the Warsaw Ghetto, summer 1941 - After the invasion of Poland in September 1939, the Nazis had a further 1,500,000 Jews under their control. The Nazis began to persecute them almost immediately. In spring 1940, they established ghettos in the large towns and cities of occupied Poland. Jews from outside the cities were sent to live there. A ghetto was a restricted area where Jewish people were forced to live, usually after being made to leave their own homes. Generally the ghetto was established in the poorest part of the town and the conditions were cramped and unsanitary. The Jews were permitted to take only some of their possessions. Most ghettos were surrounded by fences and barbed wire, or a wall. - HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF? # FREE PALESTINE
