Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

the Holocaust (Strahinich 8). The Holocaust took place mainly in Germany and its annexed countries like Poland, but it was present in several Eastern European nations (Strahinich 8). The victims of the Holocaust were relocated from their homes to ghettos and, finally, concentration camps. These places were often spread very far apart from each other (Rossel 31). The main perpetrators of…

Hitler’s party rose to power to power quite quick. They believed they were the superior race and to do something about all Jews, ghettos were established to gather all the Jews in one place. That was step one. Then came the labor camps where they’d be forced to work out of control. Lastly, the “Final Solution.” Annihilate all Jews. (“Final Solution: Overview”) Nazis took antisemitism…

people, some of which she did not know previously. Antonia’s friend Magdalena Gross is rather naïve in my opinion due to her stubborn ways of trying to live as normal of a life as possible. Although from the Nazi party 's overwhelming presence in Warsaw drives Magdalena to the zoo. Antonia is a genius woman. She thinks very quick on her feet and is creative in finding ways to keep her guests…

and Karl Eberhard Schöngarth. These four commanders were chosen as the best fit for the rank the most trained. In addition, “When it became apparent that they were being deported to Treblinka to be gassed, the Jews of Warsaw at first refused to assemble and then led a ghetto uprising in April 1943, the ferocity of which surprised the Germans. More than 2,000 German soldiers, supported by armored cars, machine guns, flamethrowers, and unlimited ammunition, faced approximately 750 Jews with little…

When the zoo became a pig farm in 1940, Jan used it as an excuse to go into the ghetto and smuggle Jews out. I certainly would not be able to leave my life's profession behind and become a pig farmer in a matter of days. The book opened my eyes to the horrendous truth of what happened. Within the book it is written that “For sport,…

and did not pursue ending the holocaust. They were focused on taking out Nazi military buildings or areas. The Jews tried to resist but they were hugely outgunned and out manned. In the article “The Uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto”, it explains how General Juergen Stroop responded to a Jewish uprising, “Stroop had 2,100 soldiers with 13 heavy machine guns, 69 hand-held machine guns, 135 submachine guns, several howitzers, and 1358 rifles. The 1,200 Jewish resisters had 2 submarine guns and 17…

Holocaust. The Holocaust was a persecution and murder of Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Gerda lived in in Bielsko until the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. She was 15 years old when the Germans invaded. Gerda Weissmann survived the Ghettos, deportation, slave-labor camps, and a three month death march. Although Gerda Weissmann survived, she came out with many disturbing memories and sorrows from the Holocaust. In the Jewish Women Archives, it says, “Gerda Weissmann, the…

opposition to the Nazi Germany-occupied Europe. Jewish civilians had revolted in armed resistance in over 100 ghettos in occupied Poland and the Soviet Union. Between April and May, in 1943, there was another armed revolt in the Warsaw ghetto after rumors that stated the rest of the inhabitants would be transferred to a place where they would be killed. As German SS and Police units had entered the ghetto, members of the Jewish Fighting Organization, and other Jewish groups began to attack…

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…

I’m Adam and I am eleven years old. I am the only son of my mother Adina and my father Levi. I live in Poland, in the Warsaw Ghetto. We were forced into coming here on the 26th of August, 1943. We are trapped in here and surrounded by a 10 foot wall, built by the Germans to imprison us. Every day is a struggle for survival, I try to smuggle everything I can find into the ghetto for my starving family, to feed my family or trade for food. Late one afternoon, I was bringing soup to my sick…