Two sections of the wall that isolated the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II should be added to a list of historical monuments, a regional conservation official in Poland said Tuesday. The wall can't be added to the regional list until the appeal period elapses. The wall was built in 1940, when the Nazi Germans occupying Poland closed the area of Warsaw they called the "Jewish district." The Germans destroyed the ghetto and most of the wall in 1943. Hundreds of residents resisted, but the Ghetto Uprising was crushed in May 1943 and almost all its fighters were killed.

Source: ABC News February 20, 2018 15:18 UTC