Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Research Paper

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising took place from April 19th to May 16th in 1942. The conception of the uprising was Polish Jews who refused the removal from Warsaw to Treblinka camps where the Jews would be mass execution. The Warsaw Ghetto comprised of hunger and death therefore the Jews had little to lose with fighting back against the Nazis. The rebellion help no hope of saving the lives of the Polish Jews who occupied the Warsaw Ghetto but continued with the hope that the memory of the Jewish people would be remembered long after they died in the Warsaw Ghetto. I read Rachel L. Einwohner work on why the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto occurred. She described that the uprising did not come about because there was opportunity for the Jews to resist against the

One account from a survivor of the Warsaw ghetto expressed that what the survivors have is the memory of the Jews that who died fighting against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In my research, I read a statement from Isaac Schwarzbart at the World Zionist Congress in 1954 regarding the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He talked about the different deaths that Jews endured, those who were compliant in their deaths from gas chambers and those who decided to fight against the mass murders. He said those who died fighting were brave and demonstrated a pride in themselves. In addition, the Uprising in the Ghetto and the Jews fighting for their lives were selfless in not only fighting for themselves but those who died docile deaths (gas chambers) and the children who could not fight for themselves. Another description of the deaths from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was from Hannah Arendt, a german jewish philosopher, said that the Jews in the Ghetto could not help themselves but fought to save the noble memory of the persecuted Jews of Europe during World War