Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto Part 2/7: Historical Background

This video is part of the Holocaust Education Video Toolbox. For more videos and teaching aids, visit: http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/educat... The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto under Nazi rule, housing at its peak as many as 450,000 Jews. In this film Sheryl Silver-Ochayon presents the study unit for high school ages, "Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto -- 1941", designed at the International School for Holocaust Studies. By juxtaposing rare photos taken by a Nazi soldier in the ghetto during 1941 with testimony and documentation of Jews, we get a deeper picture of the life and death within the ghetto walls. Sheryl Silver-Ochayon is a staff member at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem.