Would have been nicer if the Polish underground had tried to help out, 63 years ago.
And nicer now if there were an apology for failing to do so.
(And when the Poles in the rest of Warsaw rose up two years later, and nobody came to help them, they got just what they had dished out to others.)
Would have been even nicer if the American Jewish diaspora had tried to help out, 63 years ago.
Most of the able-bodied Poles were helping the Jews, by fighting against the Germans during the Battle of Britain, D-Day, North Africa, Monte Cassino.....
Poland never surrendered to Germany, there was NO Vichy Poland.
These few Jews, who decided to fight in the ghetto didn't have any chances anyway. There was no sense to waste weapons for them.
While the behavior of partisans toward Jews was often shameful, no one "deserved" what happened to Warsaw at the hands of Hitler and Stalin a year later, or to the AK for years afterward.
Some arms might have been nice, but all they would have accomplished was to die in Warsaw a year earlier.
Thank you for pointing out that very important historical footnote. Although there were some limited exceptions, the Polish underground was vicious to the Jews, killing them or turning them over to the nazis when they fled to the woods. The Jews begged them for just a few more guns to fight the nazis in Warsaw and got nothing.
Where were you American Jews? Why cast aspersions when you didn't do something? You had more opportunity and ability than the Poles at that time.