Warsaw ghetto uprising anniversary (see pictures)

Polish Radio ^ | 19.04.2007

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Warsaw ghetto uprising anniversary

19.04.2007

Today is the 64th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, which broke out on April 19, 1943 and went on thru mid-May the same year.

The ghetto established by the Germans in Warsaw in 1940 was home to about 4 hundred thousand Jews. Because of massive deportations of Jews to the Nazi death camps, but also by famine, diseases and the inhuman conditions in the overcrowded district, the number of inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto continued to drop.

The April 1943 uprising was an attempt to resist the annihilation of the ghetto by the Nazi forces. It was the first act of anti-Nazi resistance of this kind in the occupied Europe. At the moment of the outbreak, about 70 thousand people were living in the closed district.

Several hundred participants of the uprising, supported by other residents of Warsaw fought against four thousand German soldiers who had artillery and armor.

As a result, the whole ghetto was burned down and the ruins where blown up. Around 7 thousand Jews were killed and 50 thousand were transported to the death camp in Treblinka. The number of casualties on the German side is not known, but estimated at 3 hundred dead and several thousand wounded.

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[Camel Joe]

You always manage the most incredible photographs, I’d even watch your vacation slides if you posted them lol.

[SolidWood]

Thanks for the photos. God Bless those brave Poles and Jews who resisted the German Nazis with GUNS IN THEIR HANDS. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising is the epic example of the necessity of being able to defend one-self.

Marek Edelman is one of the most inspiring living men. A real hero who knows the value of fighting then and now. He is a staunch defender of the War on Terror and the deposition of Saddam Hussein. If only more Europeans could listen to men who KNOW what suffering tyranny and resisting it means.

[SuzyQue]

Did you take these photos? I agree, they are great.

[68skylark]

The photos are great — especially the first two.

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[andy58-in-nh]

May God bless and keep those who decided in the darkest of dark nights not to surrender but to fight, not to submit but to take up arms against the enemies of Liberty. I imagine that somewhere in that Hell of Nazi oppression, at least one man stood up and spoke to his compatriots in his native tongue, words to this effect: “Let’s roll”.

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No, they have been taken from Polish news web-sites.

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[andy58-in-nh]

What a great, great photograph. Thank you.

[SuzyQue]

Thank you for posting them.

God bless.

[dfwgator]

May God bless and keep those who decided in the darkest of dark nights not to surrender but to fight, not to submit but to take up arms against the enemies of Liberty. I imagine that somewhere in that Hell of Nazi oppression, at least one man stood up and spoke to his compatriots in his native tongue, words to this effect: “Let’s roll”.

Their spirit lived in Professor Librescu on Tuesday on the Virginia Tech campus.

[unkus]

Thank you for posting this. God bless the Poles. They know what freedom is all about.

[lizol]

This one is nice too.

[andy58-in-nh]

Their spirit lived in Professor Librescu on Tuesday on the Virginia Tech campus.

Yes. I imagine that the long-past sacrifices of the ones he knew and loved informed him at that moment what he needed to do. I wish there had been more like him in that room.

[lizol]

And this is the most amazing picture, I think.



As you may know - after the ghetto uprising was suppressed - only ruins remained on that place.

1 year later Warsaw uprising happened, and it turned entire city into sea of ruins.

So Warsaw was entirely rebuilt after WW2.

The Ghetto Uprising Memorial, which you can see on this picture is located on the site of the former Umschlagplatz.

And those lines of candles, that you can see - they mark the pre-war layout of streets of Warsaw, the part, that use to be a Jewish neighborhood before WW2.

Amazing!

[Popman]

“Mila 18” by Leon Uris is an excellent read about this event