Plan your Visit to Yad Vashem
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Yad Vashem is open to the general public, free of charge. All visits to Yad Vashem must be reserved in advance.

Young girl on the streets of the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, February 1941

Approximately 20% of the 450,000 Jews confined in the Warsaw ghetto were refugees who had come from outside Warsaw.  They arrived almost entirely without belongings, clothes and food, and lacked work and accommodation.  Many were forced to beg in the streets.  The Jewish community in the ghetto tried to assist them, with aid such as street soup kitchens, but the vast majority perished from cold, starvation and disease.