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Switek
04-19-2007, 09:33 AM
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/wgupris.htm)

Many Jews in ghettos across eastern Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans and to arm themselves with smuggled and homemade weapons. Between 1941 and 1943, underground resistance movements formed in about 100 Jewish groups. The most famous attempt by Jews to resist the Germans in armed fighting occurred in the Warsaw ghetto.

In the summer of 1942, about 300,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka. When reports of mass murder in the killing center leaked back to the Warsaw ghetto, a surviving group of mostly young people formed an organization called the Z.O.B. (for the Polish name, Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, which means Jewish Fighting Organization). The Z.O.B., led by 23-year-old Mordecai Anielewicz, issued a proclamation calling for the Jewish people to resist going to the railroad cars. In January 1943, Warsaw ghetto fighters fired upon German troops as they tried to round up another group of ghetto inhabitants for deportation. Fighters used a small supply of weapons that had been smuggled into the ghetto. After a few days, the troops retreated. This small victory inspired the ghetto fighters to prepare for future resistance.

On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans. The ghetto fighters were able to hold out for nearly a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended. The Germans had slowly crushed the resistance. Of the more than 56,000 Jews captured, about 7,000 were shot, and the remainder were deported to killing centers or concentration camps.

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The city of Warsaw is the capital of Poland. Before World War II, Warsaw was the center of Jewish life and culture in Poland. Warsaw's prewar Jewish population of more than 350,000 constituted about 30 percent of the city's total population. The Warsaw Jewish community was the largest in both Poland and Europe, and was the second largest in the world, behind that of New York City. The Germans occupied Warsaw on September 29, 1939. In October 1940, the Germans ordered the establishment of a ghetto in Warsaw. All Jewish residents were ordered into the designated area, which was sealed off from the rest of the city in November 1940. The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and closely guarded to prevent movement between the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw.


Strength:
Nazi: Official daily average of 2,090, including 821 Waffen-SS soldiers 750-

ŻOB: 1,800 insurgents on April 19, 1943
More than 56,000 civilians

Casualties
Nazi: Officially 16 KIA, 86 wounded according to Stroop's Report; other estimates up to over 300 total dead since January 18, including a number of Jewish collaborators.

Jewish: About 13,000 killed on spot, most of the rest deported to death camps; total of 56,065 accounted for {killed and captured} according to Stroop's Report (71,000 deaths in his unofficial c

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Jews from the Warsaw ghetto being marched through the city for deportation. Warsaw, Poland, 1942-1943.

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Deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto. Warsaw, Poland, 1943.

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Juergen Stroop (third from left), SS commander who crushed the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, between April 19 and May 16, 1943.

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German soldiers capture Jews hiding in a bunker during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, April-May 1943.

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SS men during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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German sentries at the gate to the Warsaw Ghetto during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

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A man jumping out of a window of a burning house during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The German soldiers nick-named such people Parachutists

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Stroop Report photograph of captured civilians prior to deportation to death camps. The boy with his arms raised has been identified as possibly being Tsvi C. Nussbaum, Holocaust survivor

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The Ghetto Heroes' Memorial in Warsaw

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04-19-2007, 12:27 PM
respect to the fallen.

gaijinsamurai
04-19-2007, 12:59 PM
X2. I visited the remnants of the Warsaw Ghetto about 14 years ago. Very moving.
Leon Uris' "Mitla 18" is a good piece of fiction based on the uprising.

tanks_alot
04-19-2007, 02:14 PM
Female Jewish fighters that were caught by the Germans after the uprising was crushed.
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German soldiers in the ghetto.
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Jews are led to Treblinka after the uprising was crushed.
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Surrendering to the Germans.
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A destroyed synagogue.
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German and Ukrainian soldiers in the ghetto.
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Survivors of the uprising marking 10 years to the uprising in Tel Aviv.
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daily666
04-19-2007, 03:33 PM
Respect to the fighters. Rest in Peace

Bandeirante
04-20-2007, 09:04 AM
Heroic Fight

Switek
04-20-2007, 09:54 AM
In 1943 the existence of death camps were widely known in occupied Poland. Jews from Warsaw Ghetto exactly knew the were going to be exterminated.

The most heroic in the uprisng was they knew they had no chances to survive. But they decided to die as free, proud people. This is extraordinary sacrifice. I'm full respect to the uprisers.

tyovan4
04-20-2007, 10:27 AM
There's a book about the Ghetto Uprising. Its called The Bravest Battle, and thats exactly what it was. Angry Jewish boys and girls fighting off the Nazi hordes with fists and homemade weapons. Fighting to die with dignity...


Here are some personal pictures from my time in Warszawa, I made a point to visit ghetto related memorials.


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Umschlagplatz Memorial

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Umshclagplatz again

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Ghetto Uprising Memorial

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Holy ground. This address was ulica Mila 18 during the war. Under this mound is the rubble of the headquareters of the Jewish Fighting Organization. I went here to pay my respects to Mordechaj Anielewicz.

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Mila 18




"The most important thing is that my life's dream has come true. Jewish self-defence in the ghetto has been realised. Jewish retaliation and resistance has become a fact. I have been witness to the magnificent heroic battle of the Jewish fighters." - Anielewicz

GiladS
04-20-2007, 11:49 AM
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A monument to Mordecai Anielewicz at Yad Mordechai (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yad_Mordechai).

This monument was made by the same sculptor who made the monument that stands at Warsaw (and its parallel at Yad Veshem), Natan Rapaport.

gaijinsamurai
04-20-2007, 02:50 PM
I'd be interested in knowing how many people survived, and what became of them.
I know a few escaped, and even participated in the 2nd uprising.

JJC
04-20-2007, 05:23 PM
A question, it says that uprising started on April 19, but this year the Holocaust mermrial day in Israel was April 16, didn't the Israeli governmnet made the official holocaust memorial day on the day of the uprising?

GiladS
04-20-2007, 05:41 PM
A question, it says that uprising started on April 19, but this year the Holocaust mermrial day in Israel was April 16, didn't the Israeli governmnet made the official holocaust memorial day on the day of the uprising?

The haolidays and commemorational dates in Israel are according to the Jewish calendar.

In addition the Jewish clendar date for the uprising is the first day of Passover so Yom Hashoah is always 12 days after the orginal date of the uprising.

steelfury
04-25-2007, 03:28 AM
There was a Miniseries made about this Called "Uprising." Dont know if you have seen it...thought it was well done with good production vaules, that follows the whole seige. Have it on DVD.

markjh
04-25-2007, 04:36 AM
Thanks for sharing! Been a long time since i've been there.
I had relatives that died there :(

Kilgor
04-25-2007, 04:44 AM
There was a Miniseries made about this Called "Uprising." Dont know if you have seen it...thought it was well done with good production vaules, that follows the whole seige. Have it on DVD.


I think it was a made for TV movie, and yes its not bad at all.

Scottie
04-25-2007, 05:04 AM
Just curious if anyone has every thought why more Jew's didn't resist?

Has anyone come across the term, 'slippery slope'. Where they felt as if things had gone too far to possibly resist.
The Germans were gradually punishing them, and the Jew's obeyed them (excluding esistance fighters).

The possibility of lack of social support from other Jews could have been another factor. When they were faced with the choice of obedience or conformity quite possibly many Jew's were uncertain at this point and waited to see what others would do, thus delaying a decision.
Eventually the Jew's would have made a decision; most probably to confrom to resist the authority.

What are your opinions on this?

JacobG
04-25-2007, 07:35 AM
Just curious if anyone has every thought why more Jew's didn't resist?

Has anyone come across the term, 'slippery slope'. Where they felt as if things had gone too far to possibly resist.
The Germans were gradually punishing them, and the Jew's obeyed them (excluding esistance fighters).

The possibility of lack of social support from other Jews could have been another factor. When they were faced with the choice of obedience or conformity quite possibly many Jew's were uncertain at this point and waited to see what others would do, thus delaying a decision.
Eventually the Jew's would have made a decision; most probably to confrom to resist the authority.

What are your opinions on this?

Most of the jews did not know about the extermination, and when they did, it was too late.
I will try to answer this from knowladge from my family of what happened in soviet territories (which is a different story from what happenned in rest of europe).
In ussr territories captured after the invasion to russia (where more than a million jews were murdered) the murders were taking place very shortly after the german arrival. In the Cities Many of the jewish men were off with the red army, and families with women and children were left behind. The jews remaining did not imagine what was to come.
In the rural aries, in many of the villigas with jewish population- "shtetyls", jews lived in a very relligous lifestyle. They were extremely non-violent. This combined with the lack of knowladge of the german (and their "good" ukranian neighbours) intentions, and the very short delay between german arrival and the execution, created total catastrophy.

In these places many (of the few) survivers from the shootings, joinned partizans, and did fight the germans.

In other places across europe, where jews were put in ghettos, before the knowledge of the existence of death camps and the crush of any virtual hope, uprising and organaized resistance would bring german rettaliation, and were, with the lack of knowladge, often considered more harmfull than usefull, as a tool to survive.

But when jews did learn about the death camps, things were very different. In the warsaw ghetto for example, even rabbis and their students joined the uprising- as this was "kidush hashem", they had realised that this was the end.