Jakson, Kish
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November 8, 2022 The Rise and Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw Ghetto was one of ww2’s worst Jewish holds. The Warsaw ghetto was a Jewish hold that started in 1940 and lasted until 1945. The Ghetto started alright but over time disease and starvation slowly started killing Jews. “Then the deportation of citizens. Started leading to the uprising and eventual end and liberation of the Ghetto.” (History.com). And that was only the start of the ghetto.
The start and formation of the Ghetto In 1939 the Nazis invaded Poland starting their plan they went to the Warsaw Ghetto where 400,000 Jews lived the highest Jewish population in Poland. Jews in Warsaw,
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With only about 60,000 left in the Ghetto that population mainly comprised teens, and many underground resistances started up. One of these, “the Jewish Combat Organization ZOB” (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) was able to smuggle in a weapon cash of about 100 guns. On January 18 the Nazis were getting another group ready for deportation but a ZOB unit ambushed fighting the Nazis until they Withdrew. On April 19 Himmler sent a unit of tanks, heavy artillery, and soldiers to destroy the ghetto. The fighting started as soon as the Germans stepped foot in the ghetto “Several hundred resistance fighters”(History.com) started to fight the Germans for nearly a month. But as the fighting went on the Germans destroyed building after building until there was nothing left killing or imprisoning any resistance members who didn't die fighting. But the Germans are believed to have lost several hundred men in the fight. But the Warsaw ghetto wouldn't be liberated until August 1945 the Soviets liberated the Ghetto killing any Germans out of the 174,000 survivors in the ghetto only 11,500 were Jewish.
The Warsaw ghetto was a Jewish hold that lasted from 1940 to 1945. After all the death and destruction that had taken place in the ghetto, it was finally liberated by the Soviets after a failed attempt by the Polish Home Army who were all killed or sent to camps. This is how the Warsaw ghetto started its growth and eventual end of the Warsaw