Warsaw Ghetto

World War occurred in the Warsaw Ghetto between April 19 and May 16, 1943. After the first major removal of Jews from the Ghetto (22 July-3 October 1942), the inhabitants knew that there existed no other option but resistance. The uprising was not necessarily a fight for survival, but rather a fight to die with honor and dignity. The inhabitants of the Ghetto knew that the Nazis intended to round them up and ship them to the gas chambers of Treblinka and other death camps. The Jews fought for nearly a month because, after the mass deportation, they built bunkers and hideouts across the Ghetto, had access to chemicals for explosives, small arms smuggled in by the Polish underground, and the SS units involved in suppressing the uprising had relatively little experience or training.…

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ALIBASET When we wake up in the morning with the alarm of our phone and read the newspaper or watch the news, we are confronted with the same terrible news everyday: crime, poverty, rape, war, death and disasters. I myself cannot remember a single day without a news report of something bad happening somewhere in the world. Imagine all these issues and times it by 10,000, all of this, was going to be confronted by the Jewish people of Europe, when the Nazi party took power…

Warsaw Ghetto Although fiction, Jerry Spinelli's Milkweed expertly depicts the horrors that occurred inside and explains the sad truth of the Warsaw ghetto, “Orphans by the thousands roamed the streets in their rags and boils, slumped in doorways, begging for food, clothing, anything. There was nothing to give them. So they starved and froze and died in the snow, their arms frozen outward, still begging. The children who lived were all scraps and eyes. This was the ghetto: where children grew…

“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” (USHMM). People needed to protect and fight in order to live. Thanks to group efforts, guns were smuggled into the ghetto and gave some people a fighting chance. In an event called the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, about three-hundred-thousand Jews were deported and killed. “Look. Look. People are…

Nazis found out about Irena’s activities, she was arrested, imprisoned, and tortured. Her spirit would not be broken. She refused to reveal where the children who she saved are. She was scheduled to be executed, but members of the Zegota found out, and bribed a guard to instead leave her in the woods, where Zegota members found and rescued her. Sendler’s name was printed on the public lists of those shot by the Gestapo, and Sendler spend the rest of the war in hiding. After the war, Sendler…

“The world can be better if there is love, tolerance and humility.” Irena Sendler smuggled 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto during World War Two. The Warsaw Ghetto, was a new “resettlement” for all Jews, from there, they were sent to concentration camps. Irena became a nurse and would smuggle the children out of the Ghetto using ambulances, potato sacks and more. However, she was caught by the Gestapo, German police, who then broke her limbs. She was sentenced to death but managed…

to help young Jews. Her courageous actions helped save 2,500 children from the warsaw ghetto smuggling them from their certain death at the hands of the Nazis. By taking a stand, Irena impacted the world in many ways. She not only saved the lives of many jewish civilians but she saved the generations of their families. Background After coming to power in 1934, Adolf Hitler signed a nonaggression pact with Poland. The pact was put in place in order to minimize the possibility of a military…

The Holocaust one of the most tragic events that happened in history. Resistance efforts are people who are non Jewish and help the Jewish people. Resistance efforts sound more like a group it is but even one person can be a resistance effort. Like Irena Sendler who was a polish nurse that save thousands of Jewish children. So resistance efforts are people who are willing to help people even if it does get them hurt. Irena sendler was born on February 15,1910 in Otwock Warsaw. She was…

also the Jewish ghetto police. In 1942 many in the ghetto mainly the older people and people in the government inside the walls thought it was not possible for the four hundred thousand people totally killed off, so they felt it was not necessary to take action. After more and more people saw their families being deported some decided to take a stand. Those that were more enraged were the teenagers in the ghettos. Other people knew that resistance would mean punishment and they thought that it…

resistance, groups were being formed. Much of the weapons smuggling was done by anti Nazi Poles on the other side of the wall. The resistance began on 18 January, 1943, when the Nazi’s attempted to transfer another group to a camp, and the Jews ambushed them. Fighting lasted for a week as the Nazi forces were pushed back, delaying the transfer to camps for a several months. On 19 April 1943, the Nazi’s returned in greater number with the task to liquidate the ghetto of Warsaw. This was met with…