At the capital of of poland,the nazis established a ghetto in Warsaw between October, 1940.On November 16,450,000 Jews and refugees were forced inside the area of the ghetto.There were 2 parts of the ghetto the large part and the smaller one.Enclosed by brick walls that they made with their own hands,the jews were separated from the rest of aryan people.
People in the ghettos had to live with poverty,hunger,horrendously bad hygiene and disease-atrocious conditions,small children were digging small tunnels under the walls to smuggle food.there was forced labour such sewing and making goods.
Early april,1942,the people in the warsaw
ghetto understood the nazi plan to annihilate the jews completely.there the underground organisation agreed that preparation should be made for armed resistance.The panic in the ghetto is indescribable,people were running in the street not knowing what to do of themselves.Jews began to become rounded up and shot .From april the 19 to 24th,the heaviest fighting and mass shooting took place in many streets inside the ghetto.
from 22 july 1942 to 21 september, ss soldiers surrounded the ghetto and 260,000-300,000 Jews were being imprisoned into railroad carts and were deported to the east Treblinka concentration camps and labour camps in the Lublin District in the promises of better living conditions.
On 28,July,1942, Jewish Combat Organization and Jewish Military Union was established to resist from the nazi soldiers.
The Z.O.B plan their actions, they also constructed fortified underground bunkers.Armia Krajowa,polish army officer illegally brang ammunition,weapons and supplies into the ghetto for the uprising.
the uprising was from April 19, 1943 to May 16, 1943
On January 18 1943,ss detachments and the police entered the ghetto early morning for 2nd wave of deportation.however,They unexpectedly met with this german resistance of the jewish fighting organisation led by Mordechai Anielewicz t.They met with the resistance of over 700 insurgents armed with pistols,hand grenade and a few machine guns.Surprised and disoriented,the nazis with casualties retreated.When they left the ghetto on 22 January 1943, the remaining Jews regarded it as a victory
Final deportation and uprising
3 months later,On 19 april,2000 well armed german and ukrainian soldiers returned to the ghetto to complete to launch the complete extermination of its residents-supported by artillery and air.The Z.O.B alongside the 30,000 remaining Jews were firing from windows,rooftops and hideouts as they had advantages of height.they were using special tactics and strategies as an act to refuse surrender.
However,the leader of the SS and police general,Jürgen Stroop,decided to burn the jewish quarter along with its inhabitants and then raises it to the ground.The ghetto was engulfed in sea of flames.
The defenders of the ghetto either died in flames or were forced by the fire to leave their bunkers and hiding place and then perished in the extermination camps
The ghetto burned,its defenders perished but morally the insurgents triumphed,their unequal battle had shaken the world conscience.
13,000 Jew got burnt to death
In conclusion,Warsaw ghetto had, mass shootings, forced labor, starvation, mass deportations to Treblinka and labour camps in the Lublin District.But the Jews still decided to fightback
As the result of the extermination plan that has been carried out for several years against the jews,the warsaw ghetto and its inhabitants ceased to exist
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