Warsaw Ghetto Research Paper

Is it possible that a group of people could fight tanks and mounted machine guns with only a few pistols and rifles? Well that is what happened in the Uprising of Warsaw Ghetto in April, 1943 when a group of Jewish fighters fought the Nazi power. The Jews were equipped with only pistols and a few rifles. They dug tunnels and bunkers to hide and store stuff. Although the Germans defeated the Jews in the Warsaw ghetto uprising, they did not stand a chance until the Jews ran out of men and supplies. “In July 22, 1942, the Nazis began sending more than 5,000 Jews per day to the death camp at Treblinka. Between July and September 1942, the Nazis shipped about 265,000 Jews from Warsaw to Treblinka.” ("United States Holocaust Memorial Museum“) The Jewish started digging tunnels to hide themselves and store food. Bunkers were built under buildings to plan attacks and hide civilians. These bunkers were dug in a defensive pattern. The headquarters bunker was built in the mists of a maze of roof top attacking sites. The Jewish fighters planned to attack the Germans from the rooftops. Over the months, Jews made homemade bombs and collected pistols and rifles. A Jewish fighting group called the Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa, or ZOB, was formed. The group was mostly made up of young survivors.
He sent 2,000 troops with tanks and mounted machine guns to the overrun ghetto. Heinrich expected the Jews to run out of supplies and surrender. The Jews marched through the streets, protesting and running every German out of the ghetto (American Journal of Sociology). As they marched, chaos began and the start of an uprising. The Jewish fighters held their ground on the rooftops and defending against the Nazis. All civilians were to hide in the main bunkers so they would not get killed (American Journal of