WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Officials in Poland have taken a step toward creating a museum to tell the stories of Jews who were imprisoned under horrific conditions in the Warsaw Ghetto by Nazi Germany during its World War II occupation of Poland.

The Warsaw Ghetto Museum will be housed in a former children's hospital established in the late 19th century that during World War II was within the ghetto's walls. It's scheduled to open in 2023 on the 80th anniversary of the uprising by Jews in the ghetto against the Germans.

Museum director Albert Stankowski received a key to the building from a government official and signed a long-term lease during a ceremony Friday.