The Warsaw Jewish cemetery was largely spared by the National Socialists as they wanted to make it part of their project “Museum of the Jewish Race”, in which they planned to exhibit the then already exterminated “Jewish Race” in order to show it to posterity.

The Nazis transported people like cattle in livestock wagons. The transports sometimes took weeks or even months to reach their destination, without breaks or proper food, and many did not survive this ordeal.

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