Survival, Struggle, and Statehood: The Fight for Life and Livelihood in the Warsaw Ghetto and Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Abstract

In the Holocaust, before the Nazis sentenced Jews to death in the extermination camps, they were sent to ghettoes all across Europe. The largest Ghetto in Poland was the Warsaw Ghetto. In here, the Jews suffered from diseases, starvation, execution or other malicious forces as a result of the conditions created by the Germans. After numerous years of suffering, two major groups of Jews decided to rise up against the Germans, leading to the first Jewish revolt of the modern period that ended in the complete destruction of the Ghetto and its inhabitants. In this Uprising, the Jews fought for their lives, but also fought to live their lives the way they wanted, whether it be in Europe or in Israel, which would form a few years after World War II.