APRIL 22, 1943
Terrible Torture of People in Warsaw Ghetto
BLOCK D
REVOLUTION OF THE JEWS
DEATH EVERYWHERE
CHLOE BUSH
KJOE
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
WARSAW GHETTO
The terror happening in the Warsaw ghetto in the past couple of months is devastating. German soldiers have been terrorizing jews, thousands have been starved, and many more have been shot. People have been separated from their families and brought to concentration camps. Jews are starting to fight back and try to end this madness. What will become of this insanity?
APRIL 22, 1943
BLOCK D
CHLOE BUSH
KJOE
Terrible Torture Of People In The Warsaw Ghetto On April 19, 1943 the Warsaw ghetto opened. In the ghetto, about 400,000 people would die of gunshot, gas, hunger, and disease. Ghettos were where Jews were first separated. Since they were crowded and people were underfed, it is clear that the purpose of the ghetto was to kill the Jews. When the ghettos weren’t an efficient way to terminate the Jews, concentration camps were opened. The Holocaust was a terrible event in history that affected many people in the Warsaw ghetto because Jews were fighting back against the Nazis, there was death all around them, and people were being moved to concentration camps.
The wall surrounding the Warsaw ghetto was made up of bricks, glass, and barbed wire.
Jewish Resistance All around people during the Holocaust were Jews fighting back in the Jewish Resistance Force. Many children and young adults were being asked to join this force. On April 19, 1943, Jews in the Warsaw ghetto fought back against the Nazis when the Nazis came to deport the final Jews to concentration camps. Even though the Jews were outnumbered and had very few weapons, they didn’t surrender. They would rather die fighting than give into the Nazis. The Warsaw ghetto consisted of many blocks. When They turned out to be quite successful when the Nazis broke up the Jewish resistance force they they, “opened fire with their motley broke up the city block by block. weaponry—pistols, a few rifles, one machine gun, and homemade bombs—destroying a number of tanks, killing German troops, and holding off reinforcements trying to enter the ghetto.” However, after the uprising the Germans destroyed the ghetto block by block to break the resistance.
APRIL 22, 1943
BLOCK D
CHLOE BUSH
KJOE
Death Everywhere In the Warsaw ghetto during the Holocaust, there was death everywhere. In this ghetto about 30% of the population died due to starvation, disease, and gunfire. Due to the very crowded circumstances, disease spread quickly, and food was limited. Many of the diseases were caused by lack of food and water. According to ushmm.org, “In 1941 the average Jew in the ghetto subsisted on 1,125 calories a day. Czerniaków wrote in his diary entry for May 8, 1941: ‘Children starving to death.’” The terror of the ghetto caused many people to try and escape. This caused many people to be shot. In the end, about 400,000 people died in the Warsaw ghetto. Of these 400,000 people, 300,000 of them had died of gunshot.
The Warsaw ghetto wasn’t the only ghetto to have an uprising. However, it was the largest ghetto to. Smaller ghettos like Vilna, Bialystok, and Czestochowa also had uprisings. In the Bialystok uprising, Chaika Grossman pretended to be a Christian so she could go to the “Aryan” side of the city to collect weapons for the uprising. She would also meet with the leaders of the Jewish underground from other ghettos like Warsaw and Vilna.
Deportation To Concentration Camps Families and friends in the Warsaw ghetto were being separated all the time. Thousands were dying, and thousands more were being transferred to concentration camps. Children would come home to find their parents missing, and parents would come home to find their children gone. The Nazis were quite cruel to the Jews, and used violence to force the Jews, homosexuals, and gypsies out of their homes. They even used violence to keep the children from going too fast, and keep the elderly from going too slow during deportation. Sometimes the Jews were held at gunpoint to keep them from running away. The Germans would lie to the Jews, saying the war was over and they would get food if they came out of hiding. To get to the concentration camps the Jews would ride freight cars. In the end of the resistance, about 7,000 Jews had been transferred to Treblinka and about 42,000 in concentration and forced labor camps in the Lublin District of the General Government. At one point during Hitler’s final solution, the Nazis “deported approximately 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka II extermination camp.” Once at the camps, the Jews would be separated from their families because the males and females would have to go to different camps. In conclusion, the Holocaust was a terrible event in history. It was terrible because the Jews were fighting back against the Nazis, there was death everywhere, and people were being transferred to concentration camps. Let’s make the world a safe place for all, and not eliminate people based on their religion. How can we prevent future genocides?
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