Warsaw Uprising

Mau rebellion was influential in persuading the British government to end their colonial rule because the citizens of Great Britain would not support the continual use of force and military to simply maintain a colonial holding (Nissimi 2). This uprising led to the deployment of over 50,000 British troops and policemen who killed 12,000 Kenyan rebels (numbers are estimated as high as 20,000 if unofficial deaths are included) and 1,819 civilians between the years of 1952 and 1960. However, the…

Overall, colonialism in Kenya was negative. There was an unfair education system and forced government laws along with treatment. However, there were some positive aspects, like the choice to keep the native religion or convert. The colonization of Kenya happened in the context of the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution started in the 1700’s. It was a transition into a new manufacturing process. During this period of time many benefits started emerging. Goods like cars were being…

The Mahele of 1848 was a time when King Kamehameha the third divided the land into four different categories, which was land belonging to the king, land belonging to the ali’i or chiefs, land that could be purchased by the foreigners who lived in Hawaii, and land worked on by the commoners or maka'ainana. The Mahele occurred because the chiefs were concerned that they would lose everything without a plan against the foreigners because they were powerful and had a lot of money that would be more…

and ghettos had uprisings with Jewish prisoners. One ghetto that experienced resistance was Warsaw. In September of 1939, the Nazi soldiers attacked Poland. In the capital, Warsaw, over 400,000 were cramped into a square mile ghetto. By November of 1940 the Warsaw Ghetto was closed off by guards, barbed wire, and brick walls. The German soldiers now controlled all of the food entering the walls. Thousands of Jews were killed each month by disease or starvation ("Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - World…

the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. Growing up, she was taught to help people, no matter their religion or nationality. Irena led a secret operation that saved 2,500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto. She accomplished this by smuggling them out of the ghetto (Pinterest). If other people would have stood up during this time, places like Warsaw, other ghettos, and possibly other camps could have been closed. Warsaw Ghetto was one of the best known ghettos during World War II. Warsaw…

steal you? Many Jews understandably obeyed the Nazis. They were told that the price of resistance would be their lives. Resistance during this time was suicide. Still, there were some who would not tolerate this treatment lying down. There were uprisings. There was symbolic rebellion that did not travel any further than the mind, and there was forceful rebellion of partisans ready to attack with guns and grenades. The Jews who were ready to give their life to avenge what had been taken cannot be…

entire population. The first ghetto was established in 1939, and the largest ghetto was the Warsaw ghetto. The Nazis moved from city to city and quarantined all of the Jewish people into ghettos. Many people had no idea why they were forced into the ghettos, and did not understand the dangers that the future held. Others knew about the concentration camps and were deathly afraid of the future. The Warsaw is ghetto was the most well-known ghetto. Many inhuman acts were carried out by Nazis, such…

Marcuse argue that there is now a “new genre or commemorative art distinct from older forms” and he argues that memorials today contain multiple meanings. Marcuse actually argues that the memorials of Majdanek concentration camp and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were created in order to show resistance. Marcuse further argues that memorials created right after the liberation of death camps in Nazi Germany hold ultimate significance as they were created to leave an everlasting reminder of the…

The Resistance Imagine waking up and seeing your home and all of your town is in ruins, being forced out of your home, separated from families, and restricted from all of your rights. This is what the Jews of Warsaw, Poland faced in September, 1939. When Adolf Hitler and the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, they accused the Jews of their losses and struggles from the Versailles Treaty written after World War I. This led them to make a plan to exterminate all of the Jews in Europe. The…

The Warsaw Ghetto Boy There the boy stands with his hands up, surrendering to the evil of man, surrendering to the gun in the man’s hand, surrendering to the power that is the Nazis. The picture of the boy in the Warsaw Ghetto is known as the Warsaw Ghetto Boy who does not yet have a true identity. There are men here and there stating and declaring that they are the boy in the picture but no one is confirmed to be this iconic boy. Although the picture of this famous boy is so iconic, no one…