The “leftist” organization was formed on July 28, 1942, in the Warsaw Ghetto in a tenement house at 34 Dzielna Street. Two organizations prepared the armed uprising: the well-known “left-wing” Jewish Combat Organization and the largely forgotten “ right-wing” Jewish Military Union. Voice of the Damned: The Jewish Combat Organization Deportations From Warsaw Ghetto, 1942, via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC From that moment on, they would begin preparations for the largest Jewish uprising against the Nazis. This event catalyzed thoughts of resistance from the remaining Jewish survivors. Only those who could work hard were left alive. Most, if not all, of the children and older people from the ghetto were deported and murdered at this very moment. The tragic conditions alone brought the population down to 380,000 on the eve of the start of the “proper” Holocaust known from textbooks.īetween July 22, 1942, and September 24, 1942, the Germans transported 254,000 to 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to extermination camps. In July 1941, the ghetto reached 490,000 people. Jews captured by German troops during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, author unknown, Warsaw, Poland, April 19 – May 16, 1943, via the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC Escape was made impossible by the ghettos being surrounded by walls, entanglements, barbed wire, and armed guards who shot to kill at the first runaway attempt. The Germans planned for them to die there through starvation, pestilence, disease, and exhausting slave labor. The first German regulations aiming to exterminate this group of people was the so-called “ ghettoization.” People considered to be Jewish were evicted from their homes, from smaller towns and villages, stripped of most of their private property, and confined to ghettos in districts of major cities in occupied Poland.
In Warsaw alone, the capital of pre-war Poland, 333,000 people claimed to be Jews. In Nazi-occupied Poland, called the General Government, there were about 2 million people classified by the Germans as Jews. Embodying Hatred: German Actions Leading to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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