Video: '912 days of the Warsaw Ghetto' (Nov. 15, 1940, at 5:53)

(Friday, November 15, 1940; during The Holocaust, part of World War II) — The Warsaw Ghetto in occupied Poland, the largest of all the Nazi ghettos during World War II, was officially sealed today by a 9.8-foot high wall topped with barbed wire, cutting off 380,000 Jews from the rest of the world.

At its height, as many as 460,000 Jews were imprisoned there, in an area of 1.3 square miles, with an average of 9.2 persons per room, barely subsisting on meager food rations.

From the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews were deported to Nazi concentration camps and mass-killing centers.

The ghetto was demolished by the Germans in May 1943 after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisings which had temporarily halted the deportations.

The total death toll among the prisoners of the Ghetto is estimated to be at least 300,000 killed by bullet or gas, combined with 92,000 victims of starvation and related diseases, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and the casualties of the final destruction of the Ghetto.