‘Einsatzgruppen’

During the first months of the war, Einsatzgruppen (special SS units) execute more than 60,000 – often prominent – citizens in Poland. The Nazis force the Jewish inhabitants of occupied Poland to live in special ghettos, packed closely together, under poor hygienic circumstances and with little food. Thousands of men, women and children die. Eventually, hundreds of thousands Polish Jews will be deported from the ghettos to concentration and extermination camps, where they will be murdered.