Posted on 04/19/2023 3:14:38 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Eighty years ago, Jews imprisoned in Poland's Warsaw Ghetto rose up against the German occupiers. It was the largest act of Jewish resistance to the Nazis.
... The desperate resistance of the Jews
Members of the ZOB joined with the Jewish Military Union (ZZW) and other resistance groups to rise up against the German occupiers. Their motto was that it was better to die fighting than be burned to ashes in the crematorium of an extermination camp.
After the deportation of some 300,000 Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp northeast of Warsaw in the summer of 1942, there were only an estimated 50,000 people left living in the Warsaw Ghetto in spring 1943. The only way out of this ghetto hell seemed to lead to the gas chamber. The SS planned to dissolve the Ghetto in the course of 1943.
Fierce resistance despite lack of arms
The uprising began on April 19, 1943, with a shooting attack on an SS column by Jewish resistance fighters, mostly young men and women. The Nazis had marched into the Ghetto to start with its dissolution. It was the Jewish week of Passover.
The 1,000 Jewish fighters, who received some support from Polish partisans, had much too little weaponry and ammunition and were absolutely no match for the German troops. Despite this, they managed to engage the German soldiers under the command of the SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop in weeks of fierce fighting.
Rather death than surrender
The Germans set houses on fire with flamethrowers, and most of the Jewish resistance fighters were killed in battle or executed. The last inhabitants of the Ghetto were either murdered there or deported to the extermination camps of Treblinka and Majdanek.
When the bunker with the Jewish headquarters on Mila Street was discovered, the fighters committed suicide.
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And today most American Jews vote for the party that wants to see them exterminated and Israel destroyed. Unbelievable.
I think your timeline is off a bit.
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was April 1943. The Soviets didn’t liberate Warsaw and advance through Poland until early 1945. So the Soviets were not in Warsaw in April 1943 to wait for the Germans to eliminate the ghetto.
1943 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
1944 - Warsaw Uprising
I was just reading about a guy who fought in both events:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marek_Edelman
These heroes are the reason that this Jew will never give up his weapons.
Mark
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