Warsaw Ghetto
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I often like to play with words for example when you take Warsaw and switch some parts of the name you get an accurate description of what the city went through during WWII . Saw War and Was raw. Warsaw saw the war in its rawest and most brutal form. It is also one of
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This is a short poignant story but it has so much in it.A story of hope,survival,death, bereavement and most of all a story that tells us that life is a very precious thing. It is also a stark reminder that we have to remain vigilant to ensure that evil doesn’t win. It is the story
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On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins. Surviving ghetto residents were deported to concentration camps or killing centers.. So many times have I
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Most people know the stories of the concentration camps and death camps, and they may even know about the ghettos. However, what most people do not realize is the number of ghettos created by the Nazis during World War II. In Poland alone, there were more than 270 ghettos. Life in the ghettos was usually
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Mary Berg lived in the Warsaw Ghetto, but her situation was very unusual. Though she was born in Poland, her mother was an American, so her ultimate fate was different from most of her neighbors. Jews with American citizenship could possibly be exchanged for German prisoners of war, so they had a unique value to
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It’s at times of great inhumanity that you can find the greatest examples of humanity, if you look closely enough. Jan Żabiński (8 April 1897 – 26 July 1974, Warsaw) and Antonina Żabińska (1908–1971) were a married couple from Warsaw,recognized by the State of Israel as the Polish Righteous Among the Nations for their heroic
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