Causes Of The Warsaw Ghetto

This was the Nazi’s policy to murder Jews in Europe. The Nazis believed that the Aryan German race were superior to Jews, which were a threat to German community. There were however other victims including the Roma(Gypsies), disabled, Slavic, Jehovah’s witnesses, war prisoners, etc. Ghettos were created to segregate the Jews from the rest of the world. There were three different types of ghettos; closed, open and destruction. Most ghettos were temporary, but some lasted for several years. Inside the ghetto people were forced to wear badges to be easily identified. Many died inside the ghetto from either disease, or starvation. The ghettos also were used to temporarily hold Jews, and they would later be deported to either a concentration camp or a killing center (ushmm.org).

The resistance inside the Warsaw ghetto caused casualties on the German forces that were well armed and equipped SS and police units. Continuing to resist being taken as individuals and in small groups for four weeks before their resistance was stopped on May 16th.

The Nazi’s considered ghettos to be roundup centers. These ghettos made it easier for the Jews to be exterminated. These round up centers lasted anywhere from a few days up to a few years. In this time slave labor was very common and some Jews were brutally beaten. The ghettos were considered a major step in the process of separating and destroying Europe’s Jews.

Many Jews across Europe tried to organize resistance against the Germans. Many Jews did this by smuggling homemade weapons. The most famous attempt at resistance against the Germans was, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

In 1942 about 300,000 Jews were sent from Warsaw to Treblinka. Treblinka is a extermination camp When rumors a of mass murder in the killing center leaked back to the Warsaw ghetto, a surviving group of mostly young people formed a group called the Z.O.B. (from the Polish name, Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, which means Jewish Fighting Organization). The Z.O.B., was led by 23-year-old Mordechai

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Many Jews tried to organize groups to resist deportation by the Germans. There were about 100 resistance groups trying to exscape the Nazi’s. Around 35,000 Jews hid in the ghettos trying to not be deported to the concentration camps.

It all started between 1941 and 1943 concentration camps and ghettos was made to keep myself and all Jews of Eastern Europe captive to work to death or just be executed when they are captured. The Jews did have to fight back in someway which most ghettos and camps had underground resistance to fight back against the Nazis so our race wasn't whipped out. As I heard most of the uprisings wasn't successful but very few escaped from these ghettos and the camps, as I heard in my ghetto which is Warsaw ghetto. I have been living in the city of Warsaw for a couple of years I'm just one of the millions that is in the big city. Ever since World War 2 started we were all sent to a small part of Warsaw which was the ghetto and conditions of the ghetto

Furthermore, Hitler’s cruel ideals and treatment had motivated those who were not in support of him to help those in need, resulting in resistance and rebellions. Resistance organizations became more elaborate after the deportations of 1942, and ghettos became more volatile. From January 18th to the 22nd of 1943, the ghetto of Warsaw resisted in a German attempt to transfer those in the ghetto without proper papers. On April 19, 1943, to counter the resistance, the Germans had rounded up approximately two thousand Schutzstaffel, regular soldiers and armed police, only to face a much stronger resistance and retreat in defeat. Subsequently, however, the Germans slowly ended the resistance, and by May 16, the ghetto of Warsaw ceased to exist.

The holocaust was a racist event that killed millions of Jews. The group of people that murdered all these people were called the Nazis. There leader was Adolf Hitler who blamed Germany’s problems on the Jews. The main method of killing was gassing.

The start of the Warsaw Ghetto started when 300,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka. The group was lead by a young man named Mordecai Anielewicz. His goal to have the Jews resist going on the railroad cars. In January 1943, fighters used the small amount of weapons they had to fight off German troops that were trying to deport them again. They were able to make them retreat and the resistance lasted for nearly a month but in May 16, 1943, the revolt was slowly stopped by the Germans. Nearly all members of the group were killed. Of the 56,000 that were captured, over 7,000 were shot and the rest were sent to

After the Germans lost World WarⅠthey put all the blame on the Jews, other religions, and minority groups. When Hitler came into power he started using propaganda to put blame on these different groups. During World WarⅡHitler and the Nazis’ targeted 7 different groups of people. They targeted Gypsies, homosexual men, Jehovah's Witness, handicapped Germans, Jews, Poles, and political protesters. Nazis would force Jews out of their homes and into neighborhoods called Ghettos.

During World War II, chaos occurred throughout the world. In many areas, innocent civilians were punished or killed due to their race and ethnic backgrounds. One example of that would be the Jewish people. Jewish massacres erupted under the control of the German Nazis in Europe. Many people of Jewish decent were deported into concentration camps which were intended to exterminate them. Nazis also created areas in Poland called the ghettos. The ghettos were controlled by the Jewish council which abided by Nazis strict rules. The council members made sure everyone living in the ghettos did not break any rules or else they would suffer severe punishment. The Kovno ghetto was inhumane and living conditions were horrible due to the fact that there was

Shown by USHMM, one of the earliest groups to be attacked by the Nazis were political and military opponents and opposers. Among these opposers were Communists, Socialists, Social Democrats, trade union leaders, and Catholic and Lutheran Clergy. All these people were given the same treatment of Roma and Jews, but all inside Germany. Poles were also among the many numbers of victims mentioned by USHMM. Amid these Poles the Nazis killed were “political peoples, intellectuals, cultural elites, and Catholic priests of Poland.” Moreover, Jehovah's Witnesses, groups of people who refused to be apart of Nazi government or military, were also targeted. About three thousand were incarcerated and 1,250 died because of mass murder and harsh conditions. In brief, there were groups persecuted by the Nazis alongside the Jews including political opposers and opponents, Poles, and Jehovah's Witnesses (“Mosaic of Victims: In

Their main goals were to organize uprisings, break out of the ghettos, and join partisan units in the fight against the Germans.The Jews knew that uprisings would not stop the Germans and that only a handful of fighters would succeed in escaping to join the partisans. Still, some Jews made the decision to resist. Weapons were smuggled into ghettos. Inhabitants in the ghettos of Vilna, Mir, Lachva , Kremenets, Częstochowa, Nesvizh, Sosnowiec, and Tarnow, among others, resisted with force when the Germans began to deport ghetto populations. In Bialystok, the underground staged an uprising just before the final destruction of the ghetto in September 1943. Most of the ghetto fighters, primarily young men and women, died during the fighting.The Warsaw ghetto uprising in the spring of 1943 was the largest single revolt by Jews. Hundreds of Jews fought the Germans and their auxiliaries in the streets of the ghetto. Thousands of Jews refused to obey German orders to report to an assembly point for deportation. In the end the Nazis burned the ghetto to the ground to force the Jews out. Although they knew defeat was certain, Jews in the ghetto fought desperately and