Bearing witness to German crimes: Jewish testimonies of the Shoah from Poland

During World War II, the German occupiers murdered more than 90% of the Jewish population of Poland. The majority were killed in Nazi extermination camps specially established for the mass killing of Jewish women, men and children. The overall aim of the Germans was the destruction of what in the Nazi anti-Semitic theory was referred to as the "Jewish spirit". The largest Jewish community in Europe facing death was the one in the Warsaw ghetto