What was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a resistance by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation in 1943 to the deportations from Warsaw to Treblinka extermination camp during the darkest times in the world history - the Holocaust. According to the Adolf Hitler's plan to get rid of all the Jews population in Europe, the Nazis based ghettos in areas under German control to limit Jews until they all will be deported to the extermination camps. The Warsaw Ghetto was surrounded with a brick wall 10 feet high and 11 miles long, the total number of Jews population by the summer 1942 in that area was - 500 000. Terrible living conditions, such as starvation, no housing at all, 9 people per room decreased that number each month. …show more content…
Some reports about mass killing reached the ghetto, a group of mostly young adults who were willing to survive created an organization called the Z.O.B. (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, which means Jewish Fighting Organization) on July 28, 1942. Mordecai Anielewicz is appointed commander. To somehow start a resistance, the organization made places to hide people, so the Jews were not reported as ordered. ZOB fighters could strike quickly, then escape across the rooftops. Nazi troops, on the other hand, moved cautiously and would not go down to cellars. For some time German stopped the deportation and members of organization considered it as a victory. One of the ZOB leaders recalled: We saw ourselves as a Jewish underground whose fate was a tragic one, the first to fight. For our hour had come without any sign of hope or rescue. When the Germans renewed the process of sending people to the death camp, they expect for the operation to run smoothly, but the resistance began the action. Early morning roundups take the ZOB to the streets and resist the Nazis. Being surprised y the result the Jews planned everything to fight til the end. They build underground tunnels and bunkers, constructed the roof-top passages. The Warsaw ghetto was ready to