Warsaw Ghetto Essay

Williams 1
Williams, Cooper
Mrs Amos
English 2
15 May 2023
Warsaw Ghetto

Warsaw, the biggest Ghetto in all of World War 2. With 380,567 People of Jewish faith. The largest Jewish community at the time. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) The formation and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis is one of the most iconic events of the period. Jewish people have lived in Warsaw since the 1400s.
These Jewish people had a reputation of handling and being in contact with large sums of money and money lending because they were some of the only people lending money was not against their religion. (Case Study: Warsaw Ghetto) The Warsaw Ghetto had over 100,000 deaths making it one of the deadliest if not the deadliest

This did not stop people from practicing their beliefs though. (Jeri Freedman 42) People would have secret prayer groups and religious schools (Yeshivas).
They were established in private homes and services were carried out in secret. Even with it being extremely risky, large numbers of people with jewish faith took the risk to practice their religion. (Jeri Freedman 42) “Throughout Europe, Jewish and Muslim people had constraints against their religion”. Nazis considered lots of their religious practices to be Barbaric Which compared to the Nazis that seemed crazy. In 1941 the ban was lifted and the great synagogue located on Tlomackie street was reopened. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) People still practice their Religion prior to the unban of jewish religious practice. This was one of the most dangerous things you could do whilst in the Ghetto. To the occupants of Warsaw it was necessary. The deportation of Jews from Warsaw was known as the “Great

Although, by late summer 1942 it was no secret to anyone in the Ghetto that deportations meant almost certain death. “From July 22nd until September 12th, 1942, Mass deportations were a common thing in the Warsaw Ghetto”. (Case Study: Warsaw Ghetto) One of the worst “Resettlement Operations”, ended the lives of almost 300,000 people. The Great Action was definitely one of the most tragic movements that Hitler ever ordered. Only lasting 2 months it shows the destruction only one Ghetto can do to hundreds of thousands of people. In response to the deportations of the “Great Action”. Several Jewish Underground organizations banded together on July 28th 1942 they created an armed self-defense unit known as Jewish combat. (Case Study: Warsaw Ghetto. This group was also known as Zydowska Organizacja Rojowa (ZOB). They had about 200 members at that time. There was also a second force organized by the right-wing Revisionist Zionist movement called the Jewish Military Union. During the summer of 1942, efforts to get in touch with the Polish military underground movement called Home Army. (United States Holocaust Memorial