Bialystock and Bloom
Posted on 08/16/2006 9:42:32 AM PDT by lizol
Bialystok Jewish ghetto uprising anniversary
16.08.2006
Events marking the 63rd anniversary of the uprising in the Bialystok Jewish ghetto in eastern Poland are being held in the city today.
It was the second biggest Jewish armed rising against Nazi Germans during World War II, after the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising. Over 40,000 people lived in the ghetto, which the Nazis began to liquidate in 1943.
Some 800 people were killed on the spot and the rest started to be transported to death camps. The uprising lasted for almost a week. Some 300 to 400 insurgents had only 25 guns and 100 pistols. About 1,000 Jews, who found shelter in the nearby forest, survived the war. Around 10,000 were taken to death camps at Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz.
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If you haven't seen the priceless fake satire of a 1943 NT Times covering this from today's MSM perspective, it is worth seeking out on the web. It claims the Jewish uprising was a "disproportionate" use of force, that it offended "cultured Europeans" who complained about American "kneejerk defense of Jews" in all such conflicts.
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