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Indicates a site in Polish only. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Today marks the 58th anniversary of the beginning of the Ghetto uprising here in Warsaw. The Nazis invasion of Poland began in September of 1939, by October of the following year the 3.5 square mile ghetto housed nearly 400,000 Jews. The area had previously been occupied by approximately 160,000 people. By November 15 the area had been sealed off by a 10 foot high wall and Jews were forbidden to leave the area on pain of death.