Anielewicz Bunker
The Anielewicz Bunker (Polish: Bunkier Anielewicza), also known as the Anielewicz Mound (Polish: Kopiec Anielewicza), was the headquarters and hidden shelter of the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB), a Jewish resistance group in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during the Nazi German occupation of World War II. == Background == In October 1940, the governor of Nazi German-occupied Warsaw ordered city officials to begin construction of a ghetto for Jews in an area of Warsaw formerly used for quarantine during epidemics; it was completed on 15 November 1940. The initial population of Jews confined to the ghetto was 400,000.