The Nazis walled off the ghetto in November 1940

[NNN0LHI]

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0l5KT7sV1WxUF_8cl6gbyhE6QEw

Apr 19, 2008

WARSAW, Poland — The last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising paid silent tribute Saturday to the young Jews who launched the doomed revolt against Nazi troops 65 years ago.

Eighty-nine-year-old Marek Edelman handed yellow tulips and daffodils to his two grandchildren, who then placed them at the foot of a grey-and-black Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto.

Accompanied by a crowd of a few hundred people in wet weather, Edelman, in a wheelchair, moved on to nearby monuments to leaders of the revolt. snip

The Nazis walled off the ghetto in November 1940, cramming 400,000 Jews from across Poland into a swath of the capital in inhuman conditions.

On April 19, 1943, German troops started to liquidate the ghetto by sending tens of thousands of its residents to death camps. In the face of imminent death, several hundred young Jews took up arms.

Outnumbered and outgunned, they held off German troops for three weeks with homemade explosives and a cache of smuggled weapons.

The uprising ended when its main leaders - rounded up by the Nazis - committed suicide on May 8, 1943. The Nazis then razed the ghetto, street by street.

[malaise]

1. Bush is building his wall in Iraq n/t

[madokie]

2. sounds about like what bushco are doing in sadr city

[Fredda Weinberg]

3. Excuse me, but the Polish Jews were not armed militants. There should

be no comparison, despite the political moment.

[NNN0LHI]

5. There seems to have been several well established armed resistance movements in Poland

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_resistance_movement_in_World_War_II

Polish resistance movement in World War II

The Polish resistance movement was a resistance movement in Poland which fought against the occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was an important part of the European anti-fascist resistance movement. In Poland resistance to the Nazi German occupation began already before the German invasion of Poland has ended, although there is little terrain in Poland suitable for guerrilla operations.

The largest of the Polish resistance organizations was the Home Army (in Polish Armia Krajowa or AK), loyal to the Polish government in exile in London. It was formed in 1942 from the Union of Armed Struggle (Związek Walki Zbrojnej or ZWZ which was created in 1939) and incorporated most of the other Polish resistance groups (with the exceptions of communists and some far-right groups). It was also the military arm of the Polish Secret State. From 1943 the AK was increasingly in competition with the communist resistance People's Army (Polish Armia Ludowa or AL), backed by the Soviet Union and controlled by the Polish Workers' Party (Polish Polska Partia Robotnicza or PPR). By 1944 the AK had some 380,000 men, although not all of them were armed: the AL was much smaller, numbering around 30,000 . By the summer of 1944 Polish underground forces numbered more than 300,000 with some estimates of over 400,000-500,000.

In April 1943 the Germans began deporting the remaining Jews from the Warsaw ghetto, provoking the Warsaw Ghetto Rising, April 19 to May 16, one of the first armed uprisings against the Germans in Poland (see also Zamosc Uprising). Some units of the AK tried to assist the Ghetto rising, but for the most part the resistance was unprepared and unable to defeat the Germans. The Jewish leaders knew that the rising would be crushed but they preferred to die fighting than wait to be deported to their deaths in the camps.

[EFerrari]

8. They never stopped fighting until the last of them were shot. n/t

[Fredda Weinberg]

9. So the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto was fine w/you ... the Jews

deserved it, I'm sure, with their involvement in resistance movements.

[EFerrari]

7. Yes. n/t

[The Blue Flower]

4. My uncle was a teenager in the uprising

His name was Martin Rose, and he was 15 when he was captured by the Nazis. He passed away some time ago, and he is one of my heroes.

[conscious evolution]

6. I thought they walled off Gaza last year.

[Supersedeas]

10. the steely pure analogies that the Free Ride Media continues to ignore