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	Warsaw Ghetto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Warsaw Ghetto was the scene of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, one of the first mass uprisings against Nazi occupation in Europe.
		Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the destruction of the Ghetto
		Simon Pullman conductor of the Warsaw Ghetto symphony orchestra
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto (1575 words)

	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a Jewish insurgency against Nazi Germany's attempt to liquidate the remains of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during World War II.
		The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 is sometimes confused with the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.
		A number of survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, known as the "Ghetto Fighters", including Icchak Cukierman/Yitzhak Zuckerman (ŻOB deputy commander), and his wife, Zivia Lubetkin who was also one of the commanders of the fighting units, went on to found Kibbutz Lohamey ha-Geta'ot in Israel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising (1172 words)

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		When reports of mass murder in the killing center leaked back to the Warsaw ghetto, a surviving group of mostly young people formed an organization called the Z.O.B. (for the Polish name, Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, which means Jewish Fighting Organization).
		On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants.
		The ghetto fighters were able to hold out for nearly a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended.
	www.ushmm.org /outreach/wgupris.htm (259 words)

	Uprising: NBC Miniseries
		The January deportations caught the Jews by surprise, and Ghetto residents thought this was the end.
		The Germans tightened the siege of the ghetto.
		The Warsaw ghetto uprising was nothing less than a revolution in Jewish history.
	www.adl.org /uprising/Warsaw.asp (496 words)

	The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by Marek Edelman
		Until that day, no matter how difficult life had been, the ghetto inhabitants felt that their everyday life, the very foundations of their existence, were based on something stabilized and durable; that one could try to balance one's budget or make preparations for the winter.
		The entire ghetto population was assembled in the small rectangle of the designated block: the workers of the plants, the Jewish Council employees, the public health workers, the hospital workers (the sick were sent directly to the "Umschlag").
		New walls divided the ghetto, and between the inhabited blocks there were vast, empty, desolated areas, haunted by the dead quiet of the street, the tapping of the open window frames in the wind, and the sickly stench of unburied corpses.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/Holocaust/warsaw-uprising.html (16792 words)

	World War 2: Warsaw Uprising :: FAQ
		During World War 2, 85% of Warsaw's left bank buildings were destroyed: 25% in the course of the Warsaw Uprising, 35% as the result of systematic German actions after the Uprising, the rest as a combination of the war in September 1939 and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
		A: No. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a struggle of the Jewish fighters who, between April 4, 1943 and May 16, 1943, gave armed resistance to the German efforts to liquidate the ghetto's remaining 55,000 inhabitants.
		The Warsaw Uprising, on the other hand, was a struggle of the Polish underground which, between August 1, 1944 and October 2, 1944, conducted an armed struggle aimed at liberating Warsaw and its 1,000,000 inhabitants from the German occupation at the time the Soviet army was approaching the city limits from the east.
	www.warsawuprising.com /faq.htm (2075 words)

	Gallery - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
		The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19-May 16, 1943) was the twenty-day battle initiated by the Jewish fighting forces in Warsaw when German troops entered the ghetto to begin the final round of deportations.
		Jews captured by the SS during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are interrogated beside the ghetto wall before being sent to the Umschlagplatz.
		Jews captured during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are led by the SS to the Umschlagplatz for deportation.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/resource/gallery/G1941WGU.htm (795 words)

	Grange ghetto home page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mordechaj Anielewicz was in overall command and sector commander in the General Ghetto.
		It is the stand of the population in the bunkers, virtually none of whom surrendered willingly, that has given the Rising the status of a true popular revolt.
		The surviving buildings of the ghetto were then torn down and the area used as an execution ground for prisoners from the Pawiak, including Emanuel Ringelblum.
	warsawghetto.epixtech.co.uk /HistVI.htm (1491 words)

	Gallery - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Photos
		Jews captured by the SS during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising are marched to the Umschlagplatz for deportation.
		An SS soldier stands among ruins in the Warsaw ghetto during the suppression of the uprising.
		Jews captured by the SS during the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising march to the Umschlagplatz for deportation to Treblinka.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/resource/gallery/WGU2.htm (789 words)

	The Warsaw Ghetto Table of Contents
		The Evacuation of the Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto
		The Eve of Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto
		The Warsaw Ghetto Diary of Chaim A. Kaplan
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/warsawtoc.html (161 words)

	World War II: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In the midst of despair the Warsaw ghetto resistance fighters found hope in their own courage against overwhelming odds and the cruelest of enemies.
		Food and medical supplies for the residents of these crowded ghettos were strictly rationed by the Germans, in amounts calculated to be inadequate, with the ultimate goal of slowly killing off the Jews by hunger or disease.
		While many Jews in the ghetto desperately refused to believe what they heard, thousands of others did--and concluded that if they were all to be annihilated anyway, they would kill as many of their tormentors as they could before they died.
	www.thehistorynet.com /wwii/blgenocide (1821 words)

	The American Experience \| America and the Holocaust \| People & Events \| The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19 - May ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In mid-November of 1940, after ordering all Jews in Warsaw to collect in a designated part of the city, they sealed it off from the rest of the city with a medieval-like 10-foot high wall.
		Moving to the ghetto was a ghastly experience; it was like moving to prison.
		In the next few days, the Germans began capturing and killing more and more of the ghetto inhabitants some of whom reported that the resistance fighters in the bunkers had become "insane from the heat, the smoke, and the explosions." Some Jews tried to escape through the sewers.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX103.html (1016 words)

	The Avalon Project : Nazi Conspriracy and Aggression Volume 3 - The Stroop Report
		The necessity of erecting a Ghetto in the City of Warsaw as well became more and more urgent in the summer of 1940, since more and more troops were being assembled in the district of Warsaw after termination of the French campaign.
		When the Reichsfuehrer SS visited Warsaw in January 1943 he ordered the SS and Police Leader for the District of Warsaw to transfer to Lublin the armament factories and other enterprises of military importance which were installed within the Ghetto including their personnel and machines.
		The SS and Police Fuehrer in the District of Warsaw.
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/imt/document/1061-ps.htm (15376 words)

	Warsaw Ghetto Memorials Photos
		Immediately after the capture of Warsaw by the Nazi invaders, in September 1939, repressions started against the city's 320,000 Jews, and by war's end the majority had perished.
		By the spring of 1940 a Ghetto was created by building a wall, see map.
		By the end of 1942, 90 percent of the entire Ghetto population of over 500,000 had died of disease, summary executions, or had been shipped from the Umschlagplatz at a railroad siding on Stawki Street to the death camps Treblinka and Majdanek.
	www.biega.com /wwa-3.html (372 words)

	Our Jerusalem.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Warsaw Ghetto was established November 15, 1940 in a small area within the city that would become a halfway stop to death for hundreds of thousand of Polish and German Jews.
		Thousands of ghetto residents died of disease and starvation, however, the population was maintained by the continual flow of refugees.
		When Warsaw was under siege by the Germans in September 1939, its Jewish Council appointed Adam Czerniakow as mayor of the ghetto.
	www.ourjerusalem.com /history/story/history20010723.html (1080 words)

	The Holocaust Chronicle PROLOGUE: Roots of the Holocaust, page 207
		The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the ghettos organized by the Nazis in Poland.
		The ghetto covered merely two percent of the city's area but contained 30 percent of its population.
		The Nazis created the ghetto by concentrating Warsaw's Jews in the northern part of the city, the most heavily Jewish-populated district.
	www.holocaustchronicle.org /staticpages/207.html (571 words)

	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
		The Jews in the ghetto believed that what had happened in January was proof that by offering resistance it was possible to force the Germans to desist from their plans.
		The ghetto fighters were warned of the timing of the final deportation and the entire Jewish population went into hiding.
		On the morning of April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/uprising1.html (816 words)

	Umschlagplatz in the Warsaw Ghetto where Jews were assembled for deportation
		The Jewish Ghettos, which the Nazis established in all the major Jewish population centers of Poland, were part of the systematic plan to get rid of all the Jews in Europe, and were intended as a transitional measure.
		Many forgings took place and in the ghetto, everyone from top to bottom was frantic." A similar scene is depicted in the movie, Schindler's List, when a Jewish professor in Krakow suddenly becomes an experienced metal worker with forged papers, aged by tea stains.
		The chairman of the Warsaw Jewish Council, Adam Czerniakow, was ordered by the Nazis to deliver 6,000 Jews per day, seven days a week, to the Umschlagplatz for deportation to Treblinka near the eastern border of Poland.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Poland/WarsawGhetto/WarsawGhetto01.html (731 words)

	Socialism Today - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising 1943
		The Warsaw ghetto was established in November 1940.
		But most ghetto residents, struggling against hunger, disease and overcrowding, felt they were being punished for the activities of a few.
		However, on 18 January 1943, the ghetto was surrounded again and the second wave of mass liquidation began.
	www.socialismtoday.org /75/warsaw43.html (3706 words)

	Mila 18 in the Warsaw Ghetto
		Pictured above is the memorial stone to the Jewish heroes who died in the Warsaw Ghetto in a house at Mila 18 during the resistance against the SS in April and May 1943.
		The last hold-outs in the Warsaw Ghetto resistance were 120 Jewish fighters who were hiding in a bunker in the house at #18 on Mila Street, which intersects with Zamenhofa Street.
		Mordechai Anielewicz, the leader of the Warsaw resistance, died that day in the Mila 18 bunker, along with 100 of his comrades.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Poland/WarsawGhetto/WarsawGhetto03.html (618 words)

	Holocaust: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
		When the Germans came in to clean out the ghetto, much to their surprise, they were met with resistance.
		Although the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was not really very successful, it was the first time in all of German-occupied Europe that there was any organized uprising against the Nazis.
		While the Warsaw Ghetto was fighting for its life, the world had called another conference.
	www.aish.com /holocaust/overview/he05n27.htm (338 words)

	Warsaw Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In Warsaw, the capital of Poland, all 22 entrances to the ghetto were sealed.
		Conditions in the Warsaw ghetto were so bad that between 1940 and 1942 an estimated 100,000 Jews died of starvation and disease.
		The Warsaw Ghetto, the last of all the ghettos, was suddenly surrounded on the night of April 19th by the regular German Army which has begun the liquidation of the remaining Jews.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /2WWwarsawU.htm (2551 words)

	israelinsider: anti-Semitism: Newly discovered diary from Warsaw ghetto describes last days of uprising
		As flames engulfed the Warsaw ghetto in its last days in 1943, a young Jewish woman hiding from Nazi soldiers kept a journal about her fight to survive in a cramped basement.
		The pages are part of a large collection of letters, notes and pages collected after the war by Adolf-Abraham Berman, a survivor of the ghetto and leader of the Jewish Underground who moved to Israel after the war.
		The Warsaw ghetto was established in Nazi-occupied Poland in 1940.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/AntiSemi/4537.htm (880 words)

	The Warsaw Ghetto 'Uprising' -- Jewish Insurrection or German Police Operation?
		Following the first Soviet air attack against central Warsaw on August 21, 1942, bomb shelters were built, on German orders, everywhere in the city, including the ghetto, for the protection of the residents.
		One should not doubt either the courage of the Jewish resistance in the ghetto or the tragic nature of the whole affair, with the civilian population trapped in the cross-fire between various heterogeneous German units and small groups of Jewish guerrillas scattered throughout the ghetto.
		In the entry, 'Warsaw Ghetto Uprising,' in Encyclopedia of the Holocaust (New York: 1990), historian Israel Gutman writes: 'The Warsaw ghetto uprising was the first instance in occupied Europe of an uprising by an urban population.
	www.ihr.org /jhr/v14/v14n2p2_Faurisson.html (2446 words)

	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - April 19 1943 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Between July and September 1942, 300,000 Jews were transported from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp.
		Without a doubt the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the greatest heroic act of Jewish resistance during the WWII.
		You are confusing the 'Warsaw Ghetto Uprising' (Jewish) fought by ZOB and ZZW between 04/19/1943 and 05/16/1943 (lasting 28 days) with the 'Warsaw Uprising' of 1944 (Polish) fought by Polish Home Army (AK) between 08/01/1944 and 10/02/1944 (lasting 63 days).
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=915 (1524 words)

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