Resistance : the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

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Label

Resistance : the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Title remainder

the Warsaw Ghetto uprising

Statement of responsibility

Israel Gutman

Creator

• Gutman, Israel

Contributor

• Mazal Holocaust Collection
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Subject

• Ethnic relations
• Getto's
• History
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland | Warsaw
• Holocaust, Jewish, 1939-1945
• Holocauste, 1939-1945 -- Pologne | Varsovie
• Holocausto judío (1939 1945) -- Polonia | Varsovia
• Jews -- Persecutions
• Jews -- Persecutions -- Poland | Warsaw
• Judenvernichtung
• Judenvernichtung
• Judeus
• Juifs -- Persécutions -- Pologne | Varsovie
• Opstanden
• Poland -- Warsaw
• 1939-1945
• Varsovia (Polonia) -- Historia -- Sublevación de 1943
• Varsovia (Polonia) -- Relaciones étnicas
• Varsovie (Pologne) -- Histoire -- 1943 (Insurrection du ghetto)
• Varsovie (Pologne) -- Relations interethniques
• Warsaw (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
• Warsaw (Poland) -- History -- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Warsaw, Poland, 1943
• Warschauer Aufstand
• Warschauer Aufstand <1943>
• Widerstand
• Widerstand
• Tweede Wereldoorlog

Genre

• History

Language

eng

Summary

On April 19, 1943, thousands of Nazi troops were given the order to remove all Jews in the Warsaw ghetto, a few square blocks sheltering the remnants of the half million or more Jewish citizens of Poland's capital, to the death camps of Treblinka and Auschwitz. They were to kill those who resisted. A few hundred of the trapped Jews, mostly teenagers, armed only with pistols, Molotov cocktails, and a few light machine guns, vowed to fight back. Resistance is the full story of the uprising and the events leading to it, told by a survivor of the battle who is now a world-renowned Israeli scholar of the Holocaust. Warsaw in the 1920s and 1930s was the home of Europe's largest and most vibrant Jewish community. It included the rich, the poor, and the middle class; casual assimilationists and ardent Zionists; representatives of the full spectrum of political and religious factions. Then came the German onslaught of ruthless violence against the Jews--isolation and starvation amid desperation and disease--then deportations. As the ghetto walls rose, hundreds of thousands were rounded up and sent to Treblinka. But resistance began to take shape, and when the final attack order came, the ghetto fighters stood ready. Includes excerpts from diaries, letters, and other documents of the period

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

943.8/4

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps
• plates

Index

index present

LC call number

DS135.P62

LC item number

W2728 1994

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

NLM call number

000086390