It's the morning of July 22nd, 1942. A pale dark-haired teenage boy runs through the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto,

a Jewish enclave in Nazi-occupied Poland. In the distance he hears the sounds of a crowd.

As the boy draws near, he sees a large group of concerned people gathered around a poster that's been pasted on the wall.

The boy makes his way into the throng. He struggles on tiptoes to make out what the poster says.

He can't see, so he ducks lower, sliding his narrow frame through the mass.

Finally, the young man elbows his way to the front.

His heart pounds as he reads the official notice.

By order of the German authorities,

all the Jews of Warsaw, regardless of age or sex will be deported.

Those failing to comply with this edict will be liable to the death penalty.

The boy stares bewildered as others around him jostled to get a closer look.

But the crowd's anxious curiosity turns into panic with the sound of gunfire and then screams of fear as the crowd

gathers. The boy runs tripping and falling across the street, scrambling to

get away, to get home, to hide.

It seems the deportations have already begun.

Since 1939, Poland has been occupied by the Nazis.

After their successful invasion, the Germans soon introduced laws targeting Poland's large

Jewish community.

Step by step, they stripped Jews of their rights and corral them into a small part of the capital city Warsaw.

The Nazis then built a 10-foot wall around it, topped with barbed wire.

In November 1940, all entrances were sealed off

and the Warsaw Ghetto was born.

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