The Ghettos In Poland

Imagine waking up early on a Sunday morning and getting dressed for church, going downstairs to make breakfast. After breakfast the walk to church begins, seeing as it is just down the road from home. The September air is crisp and a little cold, and the sweater you put on has proved useful. Shoes crunch against the dirt road beneath them, the sound amplifying as neighbours begin their walks as well. Even from across the field people are walking in the direction of the church. Entering mass, the tension in the air is palpable and the fate of everyone in the room is inevitable, and they all know that it is a matter of when instead of what. Mass begins the same it always does, and everyone is listening intently to what is being said by the …show more content…
They were blocked off areas of larger Polish cities, the largest one being in the nation’s capital, Warsaw. Workshops were set up in the ghettos, and starvation was a constant affliction many dealt with; medical assistance was barely existent. Not only did the organizations smuggle Jews out of the ghettos, but they attempted to smuggle food in and ease the conditions that the people insider were facing . Throughout the entire war, it is clear that Poland was outraged by how Jewish people were treated, and even more upset with the lack of help for them. Even though the Polish people fought with the allies, they believed that other countries cared more about winning the war than about dealing with the actual problem – the tragedy of the Jewish people .
The tragedies the Jews faced in Poland was the basis of the novel Mila 18, the book being titled after the headquarters of a Jewish resistance group in the Warsaw Ghetto. It follows the lives of several characters as their maneuver their way through German-occupied Poland, while also telling the story of the ghetto uprising in Warsaw. Yet so much focus on the Jewish resistance in the underground leaves on major omission, the efforts of the Polish people help Jews and support the ghetto …show more content…
Andrei himself is making the distinctions, isolating himself from the country and its people and is therefore half of the problem – but Leon Uris (the author) would never want that idea to be brought forth. Not to mention Andrei is putting the blame for the distinctions on Roman, saying that all he and others look at him as is “Jew boy”. Again in reality it is Andrei himself making those distinctions, placing titles on his own head when nothing of the sort has been mentioned. All of this is a plot device Uris uses to make the reader sympathetic to the Jewish cause, but at the cost of recognition of Polish respect for the