Warsaw Ghetto

Zabinski’s unpublished diary, The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story recounts the true story of how the Zabinskis saved the lives of more than three hundred Jews, who had been imprisoned in the Warsaw ghetto following Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. In 1929, Jan Zabinski became director of the Warsaw Zoo, and the first few chapters of the novel describe what life was like for the couple there. Besides running the household and nursing sick animals, Antonina oversaw greeting…

freedom of religion. He did not support how hitler killed so many innocent people. He worked hard during his life and through his capture. Even after he escaped, he went back to the underground and saved many people's lives. After touring the Warsaw Ghetto, he donned a disguise to enter a nazi concentration camp in Eastern Poland. There he witnessed mass murder. After the war broke out in 1939, he joined the underground Home Army. Thanks to his courage, his photographic memory and his talent…

These individuals were not indifferent to the suffering that they witnessed. Marek Edelman was a Jewish- Political and social activist, he was also the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. He had his “courage,” “strong leaderships abilities,” and “idealism” that helped commence the Warsaw Ghetto uprising the “single largest Jewish armed resistance against the Nazis during the Holocaust.” Marek Edelman was one of a handful of young leaders who in April 1943 led a force of 220…

the Nazis began forcing the Polish Jews to move into ghettos. Oskar Schindler, a man who was a member of the Nazi party, sees what is being done to the Jews and decides to start an enamelware business where he recieves help from the Jews who he ultimately saves from deportations and ultimately death. Many key events are portrayed in this movie but one of the most pragmatic…

a new turn.” Most of the books Annie read had a common theme, a source of imagination, considering most books in the 1950’s were about the past war- World War II. Annie read Leon Uris’s Exodus and Mila 18 about the Warsaw ghetto. She read Hersey’s The Wall, also about the Warsaw Ghetto. She read Time magazine as well as Life, and the Look- all which primarily discussed the events of World War II. Now more mature, so, too, was Annie’s perspective on history. Annie describes that unlike her…

The article, “Teens Against Hitler”, by Lauren Tarshis, speaks about a boy, Ben Kamm, and the challenges some 350,000 Jews in Warsaw faced when Hitler invaded Poland. “‘Eliminate the Jews,’ Hitler proclaimed, ‘and you will eliminate all of Germany’s problems!’” (6.) Not only was this a threat to Warsaw, but it was also a threat to Europe’s 9.8 million Jews. Ben, being a Jew himself, lived through “one of the darkest and most evil chapters in history: the Holocaust.” (6) Ben, and countless other…

Diaries, fulfilled? I believe that the Call for Diaries was fulfilled. The Call for Diaries happened during the Holocaust when a group named the ¨Oneg Shabbat” wanted to gather and record first hand accounts to show non-Jews how poorly people in the ghettos were being treated. They encouraged everyone (not just writers, historians etc.) to document how their life was during this tragic point of history. All the accounts collected were diverse, some were diaries, poems, testaments or letters.…

When the Warsaw ghetto was sealed off in 1940, she used her authority as a senior administrator of the Welfare Department to help organize food, water, medicine, money, and false documents to be distributed to Jewish families in the ghetto. She even wore the Star of David while inside of the ghetto to show solidarity with the Jews. In 1942, as conditions worsened and liquidation of the ghetto was around the corner, Sendler wanted to do something to help the Jews within the ghetto, so she decided…

focusing on the meaning that evil prevail everywhere and anywhere we exist. Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jewish Advocacy group stated that the placement of the art work in the Warsaw was "a senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims" (Jones, 2014). Moreover, the installation of the sculpture in the Warsaw Ghetto insultes the Jewish as a vengeful act of disturbing the memories caused by the Nazis’. Such small interpretations also caused the certain audience to…

Holocaust Ghettos Ghetto - A section of a city, especially a thickly populated slum area, inhabited predominantly by members of an ethnic or other minority group, often as a result of social or economic restrictions, pressures, or hardships (Dictionary.com). Ghettos were just one of the things that made the Holocaust miserable for Jews. They were very important to the Nazis during the Holocaust. They helped them in many ways, and the Nazis probably couldn’t have succeeded; well, partly…