When we wake up in the morning with the alarm of our phone and read the newspaper or watch the news, we are confronted with the same terrible news everyday: crime, poverty, rape, war, death and disasters. I myself cannot remember a single day without a news report of something bad happening somewhere in the world. Imagine all these issues and times it by
10,000, all of this, was going to be confronted by the Jewish people of Europe, when the Nazi party took power in Germany and Adolf Hitler became the chancellor or in other words the Prime minister of Germany in 1933.
Good Morning teacher and fellow classmates, today I’ll be discussing and explaining Resistance in the Ghettos and one significant event during the Holocaust. Organized armed resistance was most harmful to the Nazi Party in the German controlled …show more content…
The number of people in the ghetto, expanded by Jews forced to move in from close-by towns and it was evaluated to be more than 400,000 Jews. The Jews were forced to live a normal of 7.2 people in each room. Many Jews attempted to survive, but many died of starvation, exposure, and infectious disease which was one of the causes of the Uprising. As quoted in the Eyewitness testimonies by Robert Waisman. “Life was fairly peaceful until we were forced out of our homes and were surviving on bread and water.” The other cause of the uprising was in the summer of 1942, when the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rose up into armed combat after the rumours of mass murder to the 300,000 deported Jews in the Treblinka Camp. The small remaining Jews formed an organization called the Z.O.B, that mostly consisted young Jews and which was led by 23-year-old Mordecai Anielewicz. Mordecai was born into a non-wealthy Jewish family in a small town near