Kenny Chmielewski
Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
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Kenny is associate cartographer at Britannica and has worked there since 2008. When not making maps and infographics for Britannica, he enjoys photographing the beautiful city of Chicago.
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Warsaw Ghetto, 840-acre (340-hectare) area of Warsaw that consisted of the city’s old Jewish quarter. During the German occupation of Poland (1939–45), the Nazis enclosed it at first with barbed wire but later with a brick wall 10 feet (3 meters) high and 11 miles (18 km) long. The Nazis forced…
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