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'Gypsy' Camp

  ul. Wojska Polskiego 84     06 Jul 2023

As bad as conditions were elsewhere in the ghetto it’s commonly accepted that no one had it worse than the Romani people or 'gypsies.' In early November 1941 some 5,007 Roma and Sinti people were herded into a separate ghetto entered from ul. Wojska Polskiego and confined in revolting conditions between Wojska Polskiego, Głowackiego, Starosikawskiej and Obrońców Westerplatte streets. On January 12, 1942, the camp was liquidated and all remaining inhabitants were transported to death camps. To this day little is known of what happened inside, though a quote from ghetto survivor Sara Zyskind says enough: "The two men who were first to enter that Gypsy camp could not recover for a long time from the shock they experienced reading the inscriptions in German left by the Gypsies on the walls.”

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