Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by GABRIEL GARDNER

Before and After the Uprising

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:05:59 UTC

After the Uprising

Before and After the Uprising

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:07:26 UTC

Before the Uprising

Residents of Warsaw Ghetto being deported.

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:12:21 UTC

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

Nazis looking into a building over many dead Jews.

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:13:47 UTC

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

Video about the Uprising

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:18:22 UTC

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

Research Source

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:19:39 UTC

History.com was my used source for the research

Burning to the ground

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:22:45 UTC

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

The power of the resistance

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:23:52 UTC

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

Destruction of Warsaw Ghetto

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:28:40 UTC

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.

Death Ratio

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:42:44 UTC

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.

Aftermath of the Uprising

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:50:10 UTC

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.

The winning faction...

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 19:53:31 UTC

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.

The deaths of battle

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 20:01:43 UTC

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.

Mordechai

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 20:05:52 UTC

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

Lone battle

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 20:10:35 UTC

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.

Digital Note Card

gg9579927 — 2024-04-18 20:13:09 UTC

The research card used to make this project