Polish Invasion Effects

As ordered by Himmler, a huge show of force descended upon the Warsaw Ghetto. SS troops, German Police, and Lithuanian and

Summary: This article was an introduction to the Holocaust. The German Nazi’s thought that the Jews were a community. Not only the Jews were targeted, anyone with a racial inferiority was targeted. For example, although the Jews were the main threat the gypsies, Jehovah’s witnesses, and homosexuals and the disabled were also targeted. The Holocaust was a way to decrease the Jewish population; the final solution was to murder the Jews of Europe or anyone that was a threat to their German culture. Many died of incarceration and maltreatment. During the war they created ghettos, forced-labor camps between 1941 and 1944 the Nazi German Authorities would deport the Jews to extermination camps where they were murdered in gassing facilities. May 7, 1945 the German armed forces surrendered to the allies.

The Germans soon came to Warsaw making the Jews do as they said. If they didn't they would

When the Germans invaded Poland, they processed ghettos in several Polish cities, where Jews were in hiding. The living conditions in the ghettos were: hunger, disease, and overcrowding killed tens of thousands. The Germans transported Jews from all over occupied Europe to these ghettos, modeled after the ghettos the Catholic Church had established all over Europe since the Middle Ages.

During the holocaust, Jews were losing their jobs, rights, and property. In 1933, the Nazi leaders began assigning Jews to handle situations to help the jews in the Ghettos, these Jews were known as the Judenrat. The Judenrate weren’t Jewish volunteers, they were assigned and given tasks to perform: “Composed of 24 male jews … prescribed as 1) executing German orders, 2) taking an improvised census of the Jew in their area, 3) executing the Jew from rural to urban locations, 4) furnishing adequate maintenance for the evacuees en route to the cities, 5) providing quarters for the evacuees in the cities ghetto.” (Bernard  27). In many cases, the Judenrat were responsible

The city of Warsaw, Poland, was flourishing in Jewish population and culture. It had a successful economy and was the ideal place to live in Poland until German forces invaded it on September 29, 1939. This led to the construction of the ghetto. The Jews inhabiting the ghetto were instructed to wear white armbands with a blue

    The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was organized by Jews in an underground group called the ZOB. The Jews were being held in the ghetto, and the Nazis began deportations to an extermination camp. The ZOB collectively organized an attack in order to stop the deportations. Then, “The resistance sprang into action. Jewish fighters could strike [the Nazis] quickly, then escape on rooftops,” (Berenbaum 4). Jews crowded the Nazis, using whatever weapons they could find to strike them. It had seemed like their efforts had been successful, because, “the German deportations effort ended within a few days… from then on the [ZOB] dominated the ghetto,” (Berenbaum 4). The Jews were in charge of their ghetto, and they felt freed. Unfortunately, a few days later the deportations to the extermination camps resumed, and the Jews could no longer fight.

2). The ghettos were in awful condition, they were located in run down sections of town, surrounded by walls, and the buildings were in bad shape, often about to collapse (Rogasky 38). Warsaw was a ghetto located in Poland (Altman 21) it was the largest ghetto with 500,000 Jews living on 840 acres (Warsaw par. 2). Warsaw was surrounded with 10 foot high wall made of bricks (Altman 21) that was 11 miles long (Warsaw par. 2). Warsaw had no housing and those who did were often crowded in a room and many died from starvation and disease. This quote explains what a survivor thought about living in the ghettos. “Beautiful, sunny day. When the sun shines, my mood is lighter. How sad life is. When we look at the fence separating us from the rest of the world, our souls, like birds in a cage, yearn to be free. Longing breaks my heart, visions of the past come to me. Will I ever live in better times?” (Anonymous par.

Ghettos were put in to segregate, restrict, and isolate the Jews from the rest of the population. Unlike Ghettos set up in medieval times, the Nazi Ghettos had walls around them and were guarded. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest ghetto in Europe and it was built in April 1940. The Warsaw Ghetto was a residential district in Warsaw until it was designated as a Jewish ghetto in World War II by the Nazis. (Warsaw Ghetto Facts). All the Jewish people that lived in the Warsaw were sent to the ghetto. This meant that 30 percent of the population were forced into 2.4 percent of the city's area. They set up these ghettos, so the Nazis knew exactly where to find them to persecute them (Holocaust Ghettos). The Ghetto was liberated on January 17, 1945 by the Soviet army, and 300 Jews were found hiding despite the fact that the ghetto was almost completely destroyed.

As Joseph tells us, “There was no future for Jews in Poland.” The Jewish people were constantly mistreated in Poland. Many children could not walk home alone because someone would take them and beat them.

As Nazi Germany expanded outward throughou t Europe, so did their stiff oppression and disenfranchis ement of any culture or race deemed a threat to Aryans. Most racial groups, in particular the Jews and Gypsies, faced relocation by the Nazis in to tightly packed and isola ted ghettos to be more easily moni tored and restricted. These ghettos, which were formed during the beginni ng of World War II, shared many aspects with concentra tion camps and in fact were mostly transformed

Starting in September of 1939, the Nazis established the Judenrat, Jewish councils meant to operate within the Jewish communities of Nazi-occupied Europe. The Judenrat have been a controversial topic among historians since the end of the Holocaust. Some historians label its members as traitors to the Jewish community for going along with Nazi orders, but others are more sympathetic towards its members, considering the difficult situation they were put in by the Nazis. The fact is that most of the Jews who were under the control of the Judenrat did not survive the Holocaust, and many attribute the Judenrat’s failure to save their communities to the its incompetence in performing basic tasks. While the Judenrat’s general incompetence can be partially

of thousands were soon being deported to the Polish ghettoes and German-occupied cities in the

When the Germans invaded Poland, the Jews thought they would survive as their race always had, by petitioning and buying off authorities. They soon discovered that the Nazi threat was much more awful than they had envisioned. Their organizations and homes were appropriated, and they were compelled to live in a ghetto. Eventually, the ghetto was cleared, and they were placed in some of the seventeen hundred large and small forced-labor camps in Poland. On the day the Krakow ghetto was shut, four thousand individuals were discovered stowing away and were

Before getting into deep information about the city, I am going to first talk about many interesting facts about Warsaw, Poland, which many people may not know when they first go to visit this city but I do find important for people to learn the history so they can really appreciate the city once they arrive. Warsaw, known for its incredible history, with its first settlement in the 11th century but the city was founded in 1300 and came under the Polish rule in 1526. It became the capital of Poland in 1596, taking over Krakow. The city of Warsaw during the World War II was almost completely destroyed losing approximately 17% of its population and between 17th-18th century was reconstructed with mainly old architectural style. When the Nazi occupied this city, around 350,000 Jewish