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	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)

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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)

	World War 2: Warsaw Uprising 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Warsaw Uprising of 1944 — a heroic and tragic 63-day struggle to liberate World War 2 Warsaw from Nazi/German occupation.
		Warsaw could have been one of the first European capitals liberated; however, various military and political miscalculations, as well as global politics — played among Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) — turned the dice against it.
		This site is dedicated to all those who fought for their freedom in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944 as well as all those who, as civilians, perished in the effort.
	www.warsawuprising.com (127 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)

	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)

	Holocaust Survivors: Encyclopedia - "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising"
		In response to the July 1942 deportations from the Warsaw ghetto and to reports of mass murder in Lithuania the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Jewish Fighting Organization, henceforth ZOB) was founded.
		The leadership of the uprising realized that to attack the Germans directly would be suicide; therefore it was decided to attack at the crossings of ghetto streets from the rooftops and attics of surrounding houses.
		As late as the second Warsaw uprising, when the Poles rose up against the Germans in anticipation of the entry of the Soviet Army, there were still a few Jews eking out an existence in the ruins of the former ghetto.
	www.holocaustsurvivors.org /cgi-bin/data.show.pl?di=record&da=encyclopedia&sf=entry_name&sv=Warsaw%20Ghetto%20Uprising (1219 words)

	Television: Dave Kopel & Glenn Reynolds on Uprising on NRO Weekend
		The Warsaw ghetto was one of many such communities organized at the Nazis' command in order to facilitate the centralization, starvation, transportation, and extermination of Jews throughout Europe.
		Although the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto were eventually defeated in a tactical sense, the Warsaw battle was a tremendous strategic victory for the Jews.
		The Warsaw ghetto revolt is a reminder that, when push comes to shove, everyone — not just the duly constituted authorities — must take responsibility for the safety and security of the communities in which we live.
	www.nationalreview.com /weekend/television/television-kopel111001.shtml (1907 words)

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		The Warsaw Ghetto revolt was the largest Jewish uprising against the Nazis and was the first armed revolt in occupied Europe.
		When the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 realized that meek submission to the slaughter did not lessen their chance of death, but increased it, they decided upon a plan of armed resistance.
		Warsaw (Polish, Warszawa), on the western bank of the Vistula, is the capital of the Kingdom of Poland.
	www.lycos.com /info/warsaw--warsaw-uprising.html (823 words)

	Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - PowerBookSearch! (Site not responding. Last check: )
		This superb, moving, richly informative history of the uprising, which was led by an underground resistance group, should erase the stereotype of the passive Jewish victim.
		A richly documented short history of the Warsaw Ghetto by Gutman (History/Hebrew University), who is a death-camp survivor and the director of the research center at Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial.
		Warsaw in the 1920s and 1930s was the home of Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish community.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0395901308.html (1053 words)

	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Picture - MSN Encarta
		German troops lead Polish Jews from the burning Warsaw Ghetto in 1943.
		After taking control of Warsaw in 1939, the Germans built a walled ghetto into which they herded Jews from the city and the surrounding region, before sending them to concentration camps.
		In April 1943 the Jews in the ghetto staged a heroic month-long resistance, but succumbed when the Germans burned the ghetto down.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461543606_761560771_-1_1/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising.html (73 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)

	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.usf.edu /Holocaust/resource/gallery/G1941WGU.htm (795 words)

	Socialism Today - The Warsaw Ghetto uprising 1943
		The Warsaw ghetto was established in November 1940.
		However, on 18 January 1943, the ghetto was surrounded again and the second wave of mass liquidation began.
		It helped inspire the magnificent workers’ uprising throughout Warsaw in August 1944, which took place as the Soviet army was within ten kilometres of the city.
	www.socialismtoday.org /75/warsaw43.html (3706 words)

	The Second World War Experience Centre - The Warsaw Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
		Since the Ghetto began, smugglers had risked their lives bringing food and weapons within the walls and these weapons were now gathered together in preparation for resistance.
		February 1943, Himmler ordered the extermination of the Warsaw Ghetto - the German factories and their Jewish workers were to be moved to Lublin.
		The citizens of the Ghetto were aware of the planned German attack and prepared themselves for war, making underground bunkers to hide from the Germans.
	www.war-experience.org /history/keyaspects/wghetto0443/default.asp (820 words)

	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The events that gave rise to the the Jewish resistance in Warsaw, though were brutalities, such as shootings and imprisonments for 'policy' violations and the ever increasing 'deportations'.
		Warsaw ghetto was declared a restricted area in which neither Aryans could freely cross in nor Jews could cross to the 'Aryan' side, civil rights were frozen.
		The end to the Warsaw ghetto had come, although about 8-10,000 would remain in the area: at the end of the war, Jewish Virtual Library notes that there were 6000 Jews fighting to liberate Warsaw and another 2000 were found in hiding.
	www.shoaheducation.com /warsawghettouprising.html (1010 words)

	-- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Warsaw, Poland, April 19 - A leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising warned the world Tuesday not to forget Polish Jews' historic resistance to their Nazi conquerors on the 62nd anniversary of the fight.
		Marek Edelman, 84, who helped lead the uprising and was one of only a dozen to survive, attended the ceremonies to pay homage to the thousands who died in the fight.
		Krystyna Budnicka, 73, was a child in the ghetto when the uprising took place.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/165/story_16538_1.html (440 words)

	Warsaw Uprising
		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 (2634 words)

	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising \| Warsaw Life
		The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising refers to the armed resistance of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto in the early months of 1943.
		It should not be confused with the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, in which the non-Jewish Poles rose up against Nazi oppression (although some survivors of the Ghetto Uprising did join this fight).
		In 1939 the Germans had invaded Warsaw and taken control of the city; by November of 1940 they had ordered all the Jews in the capital into a three mile square area, dubbed the Warsaw Ghetto.
	www.warsaw-life.com /poland/warsaw-ghetto-uprising (1726 words)

	POLISH HOME ARMY (AK) - HISTORY
		In Warsaw, before the surrender, a secret military organization was set up with the approval of the Supreme Commander, who was already in Romania.
		In addition the preparations for a universal Uprising in the event of a rapid breakdown of Germany were to continue at an increased pace.
		The action of AK in Warsaw has passed to history as the Warsaw Uprising and constitutes a separate chapter.
	www.biega.com /museumAK/hak-e.html (3308 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)

	israelinsider: Culture: Veterans: "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising not only example of Jewish WWII resistance" (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Warsaw Ghetto by Marian Apfelbaum, former defense minister Moshe Arens wrote, "The uprising of the Warsaw Ghetto was not one of the World War II's largest or most decisive battles.
		Nevertheless, the ghetto uprising became a symbol of the resistance of the few against the many, a desperate war with no hope of victory, a battle for human dignity and for history."
		Uprising commander, Mordechai Anilewitz, who was killed by the Nazis in the ghetto, wrote in a letter that was smuggled outside the ghetto walls that Jewish fighting had become a reality, and that "his last wish had been fulfilled."
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/Culture/2231.htm (611 words)

	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - April 19 1943
		Between July and September 1942, 300,000 Jews were transported from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp.
		The Warsaw Uprising was probably the largest single resistance operation organized and executed by a partisan body in World War II.
		In then end, the uprising lasted 2 months, which was longer that the French or the Polish held off the Nazis.
	www.wzo.org.il /es/recursos/print.asp?id=915 (875 words)

	The American Experience \| America and the Holocaust \| People & Events \| The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19 - May ...
		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)

	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - April 19 1943
		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).
		However, you are correct saying that the 'Warsaw Uprising' of 1944 was the largest single resistance operation by partisans in...
	www.wzo.org.il /en/resources/view.asp?id=915 (1529 words)

	The Spokesman-Review.com
		WARSAW, Poland _ Sixty years after hundreds of young people resisted Nazi attempts to round up and deport Jews from the Warsaw ghetto, the uprising was commemorated Saturday with prayers and a solemn march.
		"Warsaw is paying homage to the ghetto heroes, Warsaw is crying over all those who fought for the basic human values and the right to a dignified death," said Andrzej Urbanski, Warsaw's deputy mayor.
		The resistance led to the 1944 Warsaw uprising and revolts in Nazi death camps of Sobibor and Treblinka.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /allstories-news-story.asp?date=042003&ID=s1339062 (583 words)

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

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