The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Holocaust Studies ^ | unknown | Rabbi Eliahu Ellis & Rabbi Shmuel Silinsky

[FreedomPoster]

I'm at about the 1/3-way point in The Haj. If it is any indication, there is a lot more of Leon Uris in my future. Great stuff!

[dware]

You should also check out "Unintended Consequences" by John Ross...has an interesting Warsaw Ghetto Uprising connection (although the book is fiction, it contains a TON of great firearms history).

[dutchess]

All four grandparents came here in their teens, I have many cousins still in Poland and had the wonderful opportunity to go there about 8 years ago...was at the Jewish ghetto monument, several many other gravesites of polish resistence, and ofcourse, the most humbling, Auschwitz. There are definately lessons to be learned by all of this.

While I have watched and heard my family struggle from wanting freedom from communism, to giving up "being taken care of" to suddenly within the past decade start to realize the fruits of freedom....I am amazed that there are so many in our country who want government control.

Would appreciate being added to your ping list. Thanks

[waterstraat]

What if all the jews in the 1930's, owned personal firearms, and fought to defend themselves, instead of meekly walking into a gas chamber?

The liberal democrat gun control Jews in Isreal learned this lesson well, the jews in New York have no idea what the holocast was about, or why it happened.

[JZoback]

It should be required reading in every High School

That would change the world

[Hank Kerchief]

Can't own a gun in Massachussetts

You can own anything you like anywhere you like if you know enough to keep your mouth shut about what you own.

In Mass, especially, there is always someone you can pay the "squeeze" and that will get you a permit for anything.

When your dealing with gangsters, use their methods.

Hank

[JZoback]

I can say reading that book was a watershed event in my life.

It changed my entire outlook at life.

It started me on the road to understanding the concept that liberty costs something.

I read it when I was about 15. Stayed up all night to finish it

[Revolting cat!]

I'd like to recommend a memoir by Wladyslaw Szpilman titled The Pianist, which was the basis for the Roman Polanski film of the same title (opening soon, but read the book instead.) Szpilman was a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and while the book is not about the Uprising itself or about the subsequent Warsaw Uprising which was a much bigger affair and has been totally disregarded if not suppressed in the freeiest country of all for purely political reasons, it covers both events and covers them with the kind of honesty that's no longer possible today, probably because it was written immediately the war (and suppressed not much longer after that.)

Otherwise, read the fiction by some American literary hack or read the historical fiction by politically correct (and corrected) American historians.

[sharktrager]

Of course the Warsaw jews lasted longer than the French.

The only way the French would get killed was if they fought. By not fighting all they had to do was help the Germans kill other people.

[Aliska]

I think I read it in about 1963 or so. I tried to read as many of his books as I could find. All that come to mind now are Mila 18, Trinity and Exodus (which are probably all I read).

I wish I could remember more details about it. All I remember is the little kids going out through the sewer to find food and the heroine, Deborah.

[PAR35]

Also by Uris - QB VII. It is a sequel of sorts to Exodus.

[Aliska]

Oh yes! Read that, too, much later. A trial book. Usually didn't like trial books but it was riveting. But can't remember one thing about it now! I hate that!

[foreverfree]

Bump from a Ukrainian (father's side). Wasn't Lvov in Poland before Adolf and Uncle Joe partioned it, and then reverted to Ukraine?

foreverfree

[lone star annie]

Another good book about the Warsaw Uprising was called, The Wall by John Hersey. I also read Mila 18 and it is a wonderful read.

[ezo4]

one man with a pistol and a rifle is a dangerous thing. Serveral would be really scary

[bonfire]

The Haj is a great book....view from the other side. Been years since I read it and keep meaning to pick it up again. Enjoy!

[csvset]

Is that a Sten?

[archy]

I named my oldest daughter after a character in the book.

And as one of the characters in the book did, I named the first German MP40 *Schmeisser* machinepistol to come my way after his girlfriend.

She was certainly a sweet little number, of Austrian parentage.

[Toirdhealbheach Beucail]

And heavens knows, we can't have the little blighters thinking for themselves...creates problems.

Mila 18 is a great read. It's been years since I read it - time to pick it up again...