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Source: https://www.dw.com/en/the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising-80-years-on/a-65359868
Archeologists Explore the Former Warsaw Ghetto
(Deutsche Welle-Germany) Monika Sieradzka - Archeological work on the site of the former Warsaw Ghetto began in the summer of 2022. The Germans set up the Ghetto in October 1940, the largest in occupied Europe. From here, 300,000 people were sent to their deaths in the gas chambers of the extermination camps. Before World War II there were almost 3.5 million Jews living in Poland, making up 10% of the population. In Warsaw, it was 30%. During the Holocaust, 3 million Polish Jews were murdered. Historian Albert Stankowski picked up a charred door handle with a key still inserted in its keyhole. He explained that "When people were deported to the concentration camps, there was an order from the Germans that Jews had to leave their keys in the door so that the Nazi occupiers could take the apartments over without delay." The archeological findings will be exhibited in the Museum of the Warsaw Ghetto to be opened in 2025.