My fancy padlet by lexie spurling https://padlet.com/spurling0920/6rzkktcajwez Made with mirth en-us 2016-11-11 14:04:36 UTC 2016-11-11 14:39:49 UTC hello@padlet.com The Beginning spurling0920 https://padlet.com/spurling0920/6rzkktcajwez/wish/137006755 In April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II (1939-45), residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged an armed revolt against deportations to extermination camps. The Warsaw ghetto uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.
]]> 2016-11-11 14:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/spurling0920/6rzkktcajwez/wish/137006755 spurling0920 https://padlet.com/spurling0920/6rzkktcajwez/wish/137008474 Shortly after the German invasion of Poland, in September 1939, more than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw,  were moved to an area of the city that was little more than 1 square mile. In November 1940, this 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. Ghettos were established in cities throughout Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe. The Warsaw ghetto was the largest in Poland.]]> 2016-11-11 14:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/spurling0920/6rzkktcajwez/wish/137008474 spurling0920 https://padlet.com/spurling0920/6rzkktcajwez/wish/137011683 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]]> 2016-11-11 14:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/spurling0920/6rzkktcajwez/wish/137011683 spurling0920 https://padlet.com/spurling0920/6rzkktcajwez/wish/137011867 In July 1942, Heinrich Himmler (1900-45), 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.

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. 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.

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