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    Umschlagplatz (German: collection point or reloading point) was the term used during The Holocaust to denote the holding areas adjacent to railway stations...
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    photograph was taken, all of the Jews in the photograph were marched to the Umschlagplatz and deported to Majdanek extermination camp or Treblinka. The exact...
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    The Umschlagplatz Monument (full name: Umschlagplatz Monument-Wall) is a monument located in Warsaw at Stawki Street, in the former loading yard, where...
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  • buildings searched, then everyone was loaded into wagons and taken to the Umschlagplatz (assembly area) in Stawki Street next to the Warszawa Gdańska station...
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  • However, a friend in the Jewish Ghetto Police recognizes Szpilman at the Umschlagplatz and separates him from his family. He later becomes a slave labourer...
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    in daily round-ups, marched through the ghetto, and assembled at the Umschlagplatz station square for what was called in the Nazi euphemistic jargon "resettlement...
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    street by street, under the guise of "resettlement", and marched to the Umschlagplatz holding area. From there, they were sent aboard Holocaust trains to...
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    Council) at Zamenhofa 19 NARA copy #2, IPN copy #2 Vacate the factory! Umschlagplatz, gate by the bathhouse NARA copy #3, IPN copy #3 Discussing the evacuation...
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    commemorated in places such as the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, the Umschlagplatz, fragments of the ghetto wall on Sienna Street and a mound in memory...
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    Ghetto Police were ordered to escort the ghetto inhabitants to the Umschlagplatz train station. They were spared from the deportations until September...
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    Zdrojewicz (right) and Rachela Wyszogrodzka (left) were marched to the Umschlagplatz and deported to Majdanek concentration camp, where Wyszogrodzka was...
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    and 1937, was used extensively during The Holocaust. It served as the Umschlagplatz for transporting Jews from the Łódź Ghetto to the extermination camps...
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    the procession of Korczak and the children through the ghetto to the Umschlagplatz (deportation point to the death camps): Janusz Korczak was marching...
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    Łódź held 204,000 Jews. Both ghettos had collection points known as Umschlagplatz along the rail tracks, with most deportations from Warsaw to Treblinka...
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    Jews being loaded onto trains to Treblinka at the Warsaw Ghetto's Umschlagplatz, 1942...
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    train at the transport site (which, as in other ghettos, was called the Umschlagplatz). None of Szpilman's family members survived the war. Szpilman stayed...
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    IPN copy #42"Askaris assigned to the operation"Stroop and foreign fighters at the Umschlagplatz, with Stawki 5/7 in the back....
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    arrested and transported to a death camp. In 1942 she was taken from the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw's ghetto to the extermination camp in Treblinka, where she...
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    the visitor along a path of markers ending at the ul. Stawki near the Umschlagplatz Monument. Warsaw Ghetto boundary markers Memorial Route of Martyrdom...
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    Secondary and Economic School Complex No. 1, which was the border of Umschlagplatz. In 2014, the wall was dismantled and reconstructed after the bricks...
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    World War II Pawiak prison Warsaw concentration camp Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw Uprising Destruction of Warsaw Three-Year...
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    World War II Pawiak prison Warsaw concentration camp Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw Uprising Destruction of Warsaw Three-Year...
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    World War II Pawiak prison Warsaw concentration camp Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw Uprising Destruction of Warsaw Three-Year...
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    World War II Pawiak prison Warsaw concentration camp Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw Uprising Destruction of Warsaw Three-Year...
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    Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with Jürgen Stroop (on the right), 1943 at the Umschlagplatz, with Stawki 5/7 in the back. Their military overcoats came from the...
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    thousands of fellow inmates who boarded the Holocaust trains at the Umschlagplatz in Warsaw, destined for the gas chambers of German Treblinka extermination...
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  • other valuables. The order also called for 6,000 Jews to report to the Umschlagplatz every day by 4 p.m. to board the trains for deportation. Adam Czerniaków...
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    Polish Jews at the Umschlagplatz of the Warsaw Ghetto being loaded onto Holocaust trains run by Ostbahn, 1942. The site is preserved today as the Polish...
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    World War II Pawiak prison Warsaw concentration camp Warsaw Ghetto Umschlagplatz Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Warsaw Uprising Destruction of Warsaw Three-Year...
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  • term for their adversaries, such as Jews, communists, and homosexuals. Umschlagplatz – (lit. "changing place") place of assembly. Jewish police were told...
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