Warsaw Ghetto

people lost their lives in a war that caused so much destruction. During the war the Jewish population of Warsaw, Poland were persecuted and killed for their identity as Jews. In Jerry Spinelli’s Milkweed, we are shown a glimpse of the past during the horrors of World War II through the lives of three fictional characters Misha, Janina and Uncle Shepsel. During the war the Jewish people living in Warsaw, Poland were stripped of their identity and were treated as less than human beings for what…

but does he really need to know his past? Misha spends lots of time obsessing over who he is, and he is overjoyed when Uri, his guardian angel, gives him a name. Misha. Finally, he has an identity, but soon Misha is just another face in the bustling ghetto. He is no longer a gypsy. No longer an individual. During his life, Misha discovers through experiences the importance of his identity, the value of family and he learns the skills that he will need to survive. Misha Pilsudski begins as an…

the SS smash windows of Jewish buildings and homes. Over 42,00 camps, ghettos and other detentions like Sachsen, Dachau and Buchenwald were e setup with Warsaw being the largest ghetto. In the ghetto there was severe overcrowding, lack of hygiene, extreme starvation and denial of basic medicine, which led to widespread epidemics. The ghetto served as a source of a slave labor camps. For the South African blacks their ghetto was called Bantu. The Bantu Self-Government Act of 1959 created 10…

streets of Warsaw. His Entire family dead. Though Ben and his family went through one of the darkest and deepest…

The novel Milkweed, by Jerry Spinelli, is about a young orphan boy named Misha Pilsudski, originally known as "Stop Thief" (1) who is a Gypsy in the time of the holocaust. Throughout this book Misha also known as "Stop Thief' struggles with his identity. In fact at one point he does not even known his real name or how old he is. Misha is an interesting character because even though he is going through the worst possible time of his life he is always is positive, hopeful and innocent. Misha goes…

nurse, humanitarian, and social worker who served in the Polish Underground during World War II in Warsaw. The German had already taken over Warsaw at the time. Irena was the head of the children's section of Zegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews which was active from 1942 to 1945. Assisted by some two dozen other Zegota members, Sendler smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children out of the Warsaw Ghetto and then provided them with false identity documents and shelter with adoptive Polish…

The Nazis used the ghettos to separate the Jews from the rest of the population. The ghettos were usually closed off by walls, barbed-wire fences, or gates. The ghettos were designed to be temporary; some only lasted a few days or weeks, although some would last for a couple years. The ghettos were very crowded and unsanitary, many of the Jews that were in the ghettos died from disease or starvation some of them would get shot or deported to…

from her work as a social worker to help the Jewish community being forced into the ghettos by helping the ill. She realized that there is not a person on this earth that deserves to have their heartbeat be muted or their feelings be buried. This 4`11 woman was born in the heart of Poland in a little town that went by the name Otwock. This 99 year of town is were Irena spent many decades of her…

the story it went like this. I am Welwel Kisielnicki I lived with my wife, Feiga, and three children in the small, predominantly Jewish town of Kaluszyn, which was 35 miles east of Warsaw. The Kisielnicki were religious and spoke Yiddish in their home. I was a merchant and often traveled, by horse and wagon, to Warsaw on business. I hoped that the war wouldn’t come to Kaluszyn.But a German plane flew over and dropped a bomb on people…

The Zookeeper’s Wife was a very emotional film taking place in Warsaw, Poland. The couple featured were in charge of a very prestigious zoo containing many different animals ranging from rabbits, to monkeys, to elephants. After being bombed by Nazis, many of the animals died, escaped, or were seized by Hitler’s lead zoologist, Lutz Heck. With the realization of the enormity of their zoo, and the danger that many faced, they decided to take in one of their Jewish friends, hiding her in a spare…