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Residents of Warsaw Ghetto being deported.

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Residents of Warsaw Ghetto being deported.

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This crowd of Jewish people were likely being taken to death camps.

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Most of the ghetto, roughly 90% of it, was destroyed by the Germans. It had taken destruction from machine guns, tanks, fires, but nothing compared to the weapon of partial destruction. After so long of fighting the Jews, the Germans called in a bomber, and it bombed the ghetto multiple times.

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Before the Uprising

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After the Uprising

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History.com was my used source for the research

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The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a violent revolt that occurred from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II. Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged the armed revolt to prevent deportations to Nazi-run extermination camps. The Warsaw uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.

Warsaw Ghetto

Shortly after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, more than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw, the capital city, were confined to an area of the city that was little more than 1 square mile.

In November 1940, this Jewish ghetto was sealed off by brick walls, barbed wire and armed guards, and anyone caught leaving was shot on sight. The Nazis controlled the amount of food that was brought into the ghetto, and disease and starvation killed thousands each month.

Similar Jewish ghettos were established in cities throughout Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. The Warsaw ghetto was the largest in Poland.

In July 1942, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi paramilitary corps known as the Shutzstaffel (SS), ordered that Jews be "resettled" to extermination camps. The Jews were told they were being transported to work camps; however, word soon reached the ghetto that deportation to the camps meant death.

Two months later, some 265,000 Jews had been deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp, while more than 20,000 others were sent to a forced-labor camp or killed during the deportation process.

Did you know? On August 2, 1943, some 1,000 Jewish prisoners at Treblinka seized weapons from the camp's armory and staged a revolt. Several hundred inmates escaped; however, many were recaptured and executed.

An estimated 55,000 to 60,000 Jews remained in the Warsaw ghetto, and small groups of these survivors formed underground self-defense units such as the Jewish Combat Organization, or ZOB, which managed to smuggle in a limited supply of weapons from anti-Nazi Poles, and the Jewish Military Union.

On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis entered the ghetto to prepare a group for transfer to a camp, a ZOB unit ambushed them. Fighting lasted for several days before the Germans withdrew. Afterward, the Nazis suspended deportations from the Warsaw ghetto for the next few months.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins

On April 19, 1943, Himmler sent in SS forces and their collaborators with tanks and heavy artillery to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto.

Several hundred resistance fighters, armed with a small cache of weapons, managed to fight the Germans, who far outnumbered them in terms of manpower and weapons, for nearly a month.

However, during that time, the Germans systematically razed the ghetto buildings, block by block, destroying the bunkers where many residents had been hiding. In the process, the Germans killed or captured thousands of Jews.

By May 16, the ghetto was firmly under Nazi control, and on that day, in a symbolic act, the Germans blew up Warsaw's Great Synagogue.

An estimated 7,000 Jews perished during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, while nearly 50,000 others who survived were sent to extermination or labor camps. It's believed that the Germans lost several hundred men in the uprising.

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The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a violent revolt that occurred from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II. Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged the armed revolt to prevent deportations to Nazi-run extermination camps. The Warsaw uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.

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The battle lasted for a month. If there are 30 days in a month and 300 Germans were killed then that means only 10 Germans were killed per day. This battle lasted a month. If 50,000 Jews were killed, then roughly 1,667 Jewish people were killed per day. This means about 69 were killed per hour. Leaving with about 1 per minute. 1 Jewish Person killed every minute of the battle. The effort to kill all the Nazis was basically pointless. If barely any troops had been killed on the Germans side compared to the Jewish death toll, then it was a high possibility that Germany could have won the war had other countries not stepped in.

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Nazis had set fire to this building to burn anyone and anything in the building.

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The Jews gave this battle all they had. It lasted just under a month. But they lost. Why, you ask? Because it just wasn't enough. They had the advantage in the beginning because they had the element of surprise but it was still not enough. The Nazis won the battle.

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This has partially translated Yiddish? (Not 100% sure.) The video is mostly animated, with survivors talking in-between scenes.

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There was no hope. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 19th April 1943

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The ghetto being destroyed had caused the entire city to be uninhabitable. The smoke may have lingered for about a week to 5 months. The smell of death stayed until all of the bodies had been removed from the ghetto. This may have taken a year or so. Next the buildings had to be rebuilt and the rubble had to be reused, or disposed of. This was the ultimate task. This could have taken 1-10 years now but back then it may have taken 30 years. But thanks to the amount of volunteers it only took about 5 years.

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Now Mordechai (Seen Above) was very important to the Jewish battlefront. For he was the co-founder/leader of the Jewish Combat Forces. He served as a type of president for the Jews. He died fearlessly in combat during the Ghetto Uprising

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The Nazis only lost about 300 soldiers, while the residents of Warsaw Ghetto had suffered around 50,000 deaths. This was likely caused by the little training the Jews had, the low firepower, and just an inferior amount of fighters. The Nazis had thousands more soldiers, more firepower, more ammunition, more training, and a ruthless leader.

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Nazis looking into a building over many dead Jews.

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Nazis looking into a building over many dead Jews.

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The heartless Nazis were looking over the dead Jews that they had just killed.

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No other country fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Jewish and the German were alone. Had another country intervened Jews would have won. But they didn't. They may have wanted to see the potential of the Jews. They were either disappointed or impressed. With the way this battle went, there is no telling.

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This Nazi soldier lay dead in the rubble thanks to the power of the resistance.

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The research card used to make this project