Editing Warsaw Ghetto (section)

===Catholics and Poles in the ghetto===
In January 1940 there were 1,540 Catholics and 221 individuals of other Christian faiths imprisoned in the ghetto, including Jewish converts. It is estimated that at the time of closure of the ghetto there were around 2,000 Christians, and number possibly rose eventually to over 5,000. Many of these people considered themselves Polish, but due to [[Nazism and race|Nazi racial criteria]] they were classified by German authorities as Jewish.<ref name="ReferenceA">Karol Madaj – Duszpasterstwo Żydów-katolików w getcie warszawskim Biuletyn IPN nr 98 (3) / 2009 page 23–39</ref><ref>''Christians in the Warsaw Ghetto: An Epitaph for the Unremembered'', by Peter Florian Dembowski, 2005</ref> Within the ghetto there were three Christian churches, the [[All Saints Church, Warsaw|All Saints Church]], [[St. Augustine's Church in Warsaw|St. Augustine's Church]] and the [[Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Warsaw|Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary]]. All Saints Church served Jewish Christians who were detained in the ghetto. At that time, the parish priest, [[Marceli Godlewski]] who before the war was connected to [[National Democracy (Poland)|Endecja]] and anti-Jewish actions, now became involved in helping Jews. At the rectory of the parish, the priest sheltered and helped many escape, including [[Ludwik Hirszfeld]], [[Louis-Christophe Zaleski-Zamenhof]] and [[Wanda Zamenhof-Zaleska]]. For his actions he was posthumously awarded the [[Righteous Among the Nations]] medal in 2009.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref>{{cite book|chapter=Antisemitism, Anti-Judaism, and the Polish Catholic Clergy during the Second World War, 1939–1945|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HeUvRvZY0dEC&pg=PA256|title=Antisemitism and Its Opponents in Modern Poland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HeUvRvZY0dEC|publisher=Cornell University Press|editor=Robert Blobaum|author=Dariusz Libionka|year=2005|page=256|isbn=0801489695}}</ref>