The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

In the eyes of the Jewish, ghettos were the worst experience of the Holocaust, before all of the Jews went to the death camps. Making the Warsaw Ghetto a significant symbol of the Holocaust. Thousands of people were stuffed into tight communities and were exposed to diseases, starvation, and deportation. Children had to fend for themselves because their parents were powerless and had to stand by watch. Families in the ghettos also watched their friends and close relatives slowly disappear. To attempt to survive, friends and family turned on each other, and all religious structures fell apart. Eventually, the biggest revolt took place between 1941 and 1943. Even though the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were still hungry and not equipped with any
So why did they even try to fight? Did they actually think they would have a chance against well-trained troops? The Jews did not care if they won or lost, the Jews wanted to make a statement and try to inspire others to fight alongside them and revolt. During the French Revolution, the peasants were determined to fight against the government. Revolutions consist of groups that are trying to revolt against former authorities that are mistreating them, and they are willing to sacrifice their lives for revenge. In both the French Revolution and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising the revolutionaries brought about their own destruction. The French Revolution and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising illustrate that revolutions happen when citizens are mistreated by authorities, and after the revolution social opinions and the government is changed, each revolution obtained varied levels of success due to
The article “The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising” mentions that even though 60,000 Jews perished during the uprising the small victories “inspired the ghetto fighters to prepare for future resistance” (“The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising”). After the uprising, the Jews started to realize that hope still existed. At the end of Tale of Two Cities, Dickens describes that the French Revolution had subsided and that there was hope that life would get better in the future: “I see a beautiful city and a brilliant people rising from this abyss, and, in their struggles to be truly free, in their triumphs and defeats, through long years to come, I see the evil of this time and of the previous time of which this is the natural birth, gradually making expiation for itself and wearing out” (Dickens 342). Dickens’s ending to Tale of Two Cities related to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising because the Jews were able to fight for their freedom, and they expressed the victory by holding on to hope, their spirit, and their beliefs. The Jews that did survive the uprising felt that they were no safe and soon fled the country to Israel, so they could practice their beliefs freely. Jeri Freeman suggests that “the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising changed the view that Jews accepted abuse and were to afraid to fight back” (Freedman 60). Jewish