What Are The Effects Of The Warsaw Ghetto

On September 1, 1939, Poland was invaded by Germany. The Nazi leader of Germany, Adolf Hitler, tried to make the claim that this was a strictly defensive move on their part, even though all along his main goal for invading Poland was to gain more Lebensraum, or “living space” for the people of Germany. Hitler had a plan to colonize the territory and to enslave and eliminate those citizens that he considered to be inferior, specifically the Jews, to make room for his “racially superior” German citizens. On September 3, Britain and France, who had never believed Hitler’s claim of it being a defensive move, declared war on Germany. This was the beginning of World War II. The Polish army was no match for Hitler's troops who used a military
With this many humans confined in such small area, living conditions were deplorable and the death toll was very high. The Warsaw Ghetto was only a 1.3 square mile area that was separated by a 10 foot barbed wire wall guarded by armed Nazi soldiers. Life inside the Warsaw Ghetto was one of great suffering. With this many people confined in such a small area, there was a lot of disease, starvation, and suffering. Only a small amount of food was provided by the Germans, and as many as 83,000 jews starved to death. Living in such a cramped area also meant that diseases spread rampantly killing thousands at a time. The Germans would not supply the jews with medical supplies, and medical supplies were not allowed in the Ghetto, but doctors were. From time to time large group would be escorted outside the walls and would never return. Eventually news began to make it back to those in the ghetto that everyone who had been taken was either sent off to labor camps or put to death in the gas chambers. At this point they have started to feel hopeless, but they didn't want to just sit there and be beat. The Jewish people confined in these deplorable conditions had to make a choice, either they sit back and accept their fate of being herded like cattle to the slaughter, or they could try to save
In the BIALYSTOK Ghetto in northern Poland they were able to fight for several days with makeshift weapons, before the SS was able to overtake them. Additionally in a Jewish ghetto in Nazi occupied Minsk (Russia) almost 10,000 captives were able to escape and they were able to join Soviet sympathizers. In August of 1943, at the Treblinka death camp prisoners were able to kill some guards, set some buildings on fire, and several hundred were able to escape. Another successful uprising occurred at the Sobibor camp in October of 1943. Prisoners there killed several SS officers and guards, and launched an assault on the camp allowing around 600 Jews to flee. Every year there's a Holocaust Remembrance Day and at one of these Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the uprising “a turning point in the fate of the Jewish