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    For example, when she talks about the fate of her older sister; she mentions four versions: the first one is that she hid in the Warsaw ghetto, the second is that she was given to the women, who submitted her to the Nazis, by who she was killed, while the third or she was taken to the hospital and died there. And the last one, that she was adopted by another family. The actual fact…

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    population to feed and a location conducive to supply smuggling, Krakow suffered from starvation comparable to that in Lodz, where there were no nearby cities to support an illegal transfer of goods to the ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto endured similar, if not worse, conditions. The Warsaw Ghetto’s estimated 400,000 Jews suffered severely from…

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    supply the weapons for the Jewish Fighting Organization. One of the most well known armed resistances that happened during the Holocaust took place in the Warsaw ghetto, which is the biggest city and the capital of Poland; more than 350,000 Jews resided there; its Jewish community was the second largest in the world. (ushmm). Known as the Warsaw ghetto uprising, only in two months between 1942, over 300,000 Jews were murdered or deported. The German authorities only allowed 35,000 Jews inside…

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    The defining symbol of Jewish resistance to Nazi oppression during the Second 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…

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    “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…

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    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…

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    stands up for other Jews could spark a resistance that would mean that those brave enough are standing up for those that aren't able to. Some Jews helped by smuggling in weapons and smuggling in food (small children did this). "On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins. Surviving ghetto residents were deported to…

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    Cold war began after World War II. Everybody was pleased that World War II (WW II) ended and people would not be afraid of their lives anymore. However, this idea was not true because Cold war began. This war was nearly worse than WW II because nobody declared this war and this war officially never ended. In fact, everybody realized this war. Cold war was different from previous wars because two superpower countries stood against each other. Both countries had different ideologies, regimes and…

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    by competing ideals and fear of further conflict, the communist and non-communist nations alike sought not only collective security measures through institutions such as the United Nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact but also international economic stability through the Bretton Woods institution. Although created under the auspices of noble objectives, most of these institutions largely served as mechanisms for furthering each states own foreign and…

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    form to different alliance in Europe NATO and the Warsaw Pact. They were created in the early stages of the cold war. NATO was made first to give help the countries boarding the eastern communist countries. NATO said if one of these countries where attack then the other countries would come in and help get out the communist people. The Warsaw Pact was the response to NATO and protects those countries near the western part of Europe. The Warsaw Pact created the communist bloc, which would…

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