The Warsaw Ghetto was an urban prison zone in the middle of German-occupied Warsaw. Some 400,000 Jews were trapped in 1.3 square miles. By 1942 83,000 had died of disease and starvation. Arguably the most popular novel in the Ghetto was Franz Werfel’s “The Forty Days of Musa Dagh” about the systematic expulsion and slaying of 1.5 million Armenians. The courageous struggle of the Armenians inspired the Jews not only in the Ghetto but also in British Mandate Palestine. ”
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