Wartime Jewish hero says Warsaw ghetto uprising retains powerful message

Jerusalem Post ^ | Apr. 16, 2003 | THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

[Badray]

bttt

[El Sordo]

Yet he smokes French cigarettes..........

[El Sordo]

A good book for those interested in the Jews who did not go meekly into the night:

The Defiant

[valkyrieanne]

Thank you, God, that this witness was allowed to live long enough to tell us his view about the Iraqi war.

[KantianBurke]

big bump

[pachanga]

April 19 BTTT

[Larry Lucido]

Sarah Brady comments: "While we do not support the actions of the Nazis, we remain concerned about the easy availability of pistols, grenades and machine guns in ghetto areas."

[mondonico]

Which raises the question, can anyone who says "Never again!" but doesn't support the RKBA really mean it?

[SauronOfMordor]

April 19th is also the anniversery of the "shot heard round the world" that started the American Revolution, as well as the Waco incident.

[axxmann]

Another great WWII Jewish resistance is "Fighting Back" by Harold Werner. Its obvioulsy not written by a professional author, but the story is very compelling.

[Larry Lucido]

can anyone who says "Never again!" but doesn't support the RKBA really mean it?

No, they can't.

[pawdoggie]

Which raises the question, can anyone who says "Never again!" but doesn't support the RKBA really mean it?

I assume this is a rhetorical question.

[GATOR NAVY]

Polish resistance fighters stepped up pinprick attacks against the Nazis and in August 1944 launched an ill-fated revolt in Warsaw that took the Germans 63 days to put down.

The article neglects to mention the uprising was timed to coincide with the arrival of the Red Army. However, the Soviets inexplicably stopped their advance outside Warsaw, ignored Polish pleas for assistance, and waited until the Germans to smashed the Polish resistance before resuming their drive on Warsaw.

[Byron_the_Aussie]

Yonif, when harsh gun laws were introduced into Australia back in '96, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ran a story tangentially relevant to your thread. A blindfolded film crew were taken to a location north of Adelaide (South Australia) by a group of young Jews. The men placed (banned) SKS and SKK rifles, plus large amounts of ammunition into PVC plumbing pipes, and buried them in the forest. All this was recorded on camera and played on the ABC's 7:30 Report. Their argument, as expressed eloquently by their leader, was basically, 'Warsaw, never again.' Cheers, By

[Mean Daddy]

Check out the website www.jpfo.org. It's a Jewish gun rights website. They make the NRA look liberal. Their premise is based on this incident that if the Jews had been organized and armed, the holocaust wouldn't have happened.

[Ciexyz]

Some 30 years ago, I read Leon Uris' book "Mila 18" about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and Jean Francois Steiner's book "Treblinka" about the Treblinka uprising. These are moving accounts of exceptional courage and well worth reading. They're both still in print.

In both uprisings, success depended on access to guns. A lesson well-worth remembering.

Also, "Escape from Sobibor" was a TV film from @ 1990 starring Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer, still available in some video stores. Same lesson: the Jews secretly attacked guards and stole their rifles, then a small portion of them fired at the guards while permitting the prisoners to flee under the barbed wire.

"Escape from Sobibor" has been broadcast on the History Channel.

[VOA]

"The war is not about oil, it's about defending man's freedom," Edelman said in an
interview at his home.
"As you can see, the world has not learned the lessons of the Holocaust."

You can say that again brother.

I noticed (with happy approval) when I first saw a commercial for "The Pianist"
when the voice over of Adrian Brody says something like "I'm going to stay and
take my chances", as the visual shows hands opening up a cloth to reveal a pistol.

I thought "very cool...maybe mainstream American Jews will start embracing the idea
that gun ownership is a good thing".

Funny, when the commercial campaign revived for the Oscar season...that part of the
commercial "went missing".

Like the old soldier says...most folks still haven't gotten the lesson yet.
Even the likely future victims.

[VOA]

Sarah Brady comments: "While we do not support the actions of the Nazis, we remain
concerned about the easy availability of pistols, grenades and machine
guns in ghetto areas."

I got a kick about Sarah Brady being annoyed about how much time it took her
to buy a high-powered rifle (.30'06, IIRC) with scope for her son a couple of
years ago. It sounded like one of those dangerous "straw man purchases".

I bet there was a general slow-down at the gun shop when the clerk saw the name
on the paperwork!

Myself, I just want the deal that Sean Penn has: drive around a gas-guzzling V-8 powered
car with a Glock and a .38 revolver to go with a California Concealed Carry
permit and a house in Marin County.

Of course, Mr. Penn hasn't been shamed into a public apology about his possession
and failing to stop the distribution of "weapons of mass destruction".

[Badray]

This deserves another bump back to the top.