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Warsaw Ghettos During The 1930 And 1940

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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Holocaust affected the lives of many Jews and non-Jews during the 1930’s and 1940’s. One particular group of the Holocaust were the people of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Ghettos during the Holocaust were cruel and harsh. They didn’t feed the people hardly anything and nothing was sanitary at all. If you didn’t die from the conditions there, you could easily be shot by cruel Nazi soldiers (“Ghettos”).There were nearly 100 different Jewish groups that started to prepare themselves for defense during the early 1940’s. Jews and non-Jews of ghettos in Eastern Europe began to smuggle in and make their own weapons (“The Warsaw...Uprising”).
The people of the Warsaw Ghetto had no inspiration to fight. Thousands were dying of starvation …show more content…

The troops eventually retreated. After the successful event, the people of the Warsaw ghetto felt hope. They prepared to fight for the end and built underground bunkers and tunnels and built roof top passages. On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Uprising began. German troops and police went to deport the rest of the people in the ghetto. To their surprise, 750 Jewish fighters were prepared. The Jews held out for almost a month; during this time, German troops had been burning and blowing up building to get the inhabitants out. Some fighters escaped, but most were sent to either Treblinka or Majdanek camp (“The Warsaw...Uprising”). To signal the end, German troops blew up the synagogue in the Ghetto (“Warsaw...Uprising”).
When the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began they not only had 750 members of the Z.O.B. but they also had 250 members from the Żydowski Związek Wojskowy which is polish for Jewish Military Union (“Warsaw...Uprising”). They worked together to slow deportation and save people.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the largest and first urban uprising in Europe. The uprising inspired many other resistances in ghettos like Bialystok and Minsk and at the killing centers like Treblinka and Sobibor (“Warsaw..Uprising”). The brave fighters paved a path for future

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