 | Assimilated Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1940-1943 Subjects: Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland -- Warsaw; Holocaust Jewish (1939–1945) -- Poland -- Warsaw; Jews -- Poland -- Warsaw -- History -- 20th century; Jews in Nazi-occupied Warsaw during the 1940s were under increasing threat as they were stripped of their rights and forced to live in a guarded ghetto away from the non-Jewish Polish population. Within the ghettos, a small but distinct group existed: the assimilated, acculturated, and baptized Jews. Unwilling to integrate into the Jewish community and unable to merge with the Polish one, they formed a group of their own, remaining in a state of suspension throughout the interwar period. In 1940, with the closure of the Jewish residential quarter in Warsaw, their identity was chosen for them. Katarzyna Person is a researcher at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. |
