This was extended to men and boys aged in January Some Jews managed to keep their jobs following ghettoisation in Warsaw, but most were made unemployed. As the war effort continued, the need for cheap, and preferably free, labour increased. The Nazis increasingly turned to utilising the incarcerated Jews for forced labour such as construction work. By the summer of , the Jewish Council in Warsaw was asked to supply lists of able-bodied Jewish men to work in labour camps.
Failure to supply the amount of men asked for resulted in random round-ups of Jewish men in the streets. Conditions in the camps were abysmal , and workers sent there would often die as a result of the lethal conditions, or return back to the ghetto scarred by their experiences.
Workers were not paid for their efforts. With over , people crowded into an area of 1. Many homes did not have access to running water. Soap was sparse and of poor quality. In addition to this, there were just five public bath houses, serving approximately 17, people a month. Between and Korczak set up and led an orphanage in Warsaw for Jewish children. In , following the German invasion of Poland, the orphanage was moved into the area designated to be the Warsaw Ghetto.
Despite the terrible conditions, Korczak worked tirelessly to ensure the children had adequate food and social activities. Over the next few years, Korczak was repeatedly offered opportunities by underground resistance groups to escape the ghetto, but he refused to abandon the children in the orphanage. In the first week of August , the Nazis came to the orphanage to collect the children who were still housed there.
Korczak insisted that he would accompany them. Korczak and the children were marched to the Umschlagplatz , the deportation point of the ghetto, and sent together to their deaths at the Treblinka extermination camp. The Warsaw Ghetto had several bars where inhabitants could, if they had spare time and money, go to momentarily escape their circumstances.
This picture was taken in a bar in Whilst conditions in the ghetto were extremely difficult, some inhabitants were determined to continue cultural aspects of their previous life. Despite education being banned at almost all levels, there were schools throughout the ghetto. Adults could also attend seminars and lectures , often led by those at the top of their field, such as Professor Hirszfeld , a prominent bacteriologist who led lectures for medical students.
Until , Jewish book stores also operated in the ghetto. There were also several theatres which showed plays, as well as artists, musicians, bands and writers, who published covertly. From 15 January , inhabitants of the ghetto could also send and receive post through the Warsaw Post Office based in the ghetto. Post was unreliable and could be temporarily suspended. It was also censored and could only be sent to neutral countries not at war with Germany.
Despite these challenges, the postal service meant that inhabitants could receive food packages from relatives in Poland or abroad, and spread the word about the poor conditions there, albeit using indirect language or drawings. Emanuel Ringelblum was the founder of an underground archive compiled within the Warsaw Ghetto. This book was written by Ringelblum and documents life within the ghetto.
In , Ringelblum, his wife and their son went into hiding. A year later, they were denounced, captured and shot inside the Warsaw Pawiak prison.
Jews in the ghetto resisted Nazi rule and the conditions imposed on them in different ways. Perhaps the most common form of resistance took place in the form of smuggling basic supplies over, under or through the ghetto walls. Estimates suggest that between 80 — Without this form of resistance, thousands more people would have died from starvation. Others Jews imprisoned in the ghetto resisted the Nazis by continuing to take part in religious activities and holidays, despite these often being banned.
Participants were subject to extreme punishments if caught. An example of this religious resistance in the ghetto was the group prayers held in secret at the house of Rabbi Szapiro. Similarly, some set up schools, despite the ban on education for Jews. The historian Emanuel Ringelblum , in collaboration with others such as Rachel Auerbach , resisted Nazi rule from within the ghetto by creating an archive documenting the Nazi crimes.
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Deportations and Uprising From July 22 until September 12, , German SS and police units, assisted by auxiliaries, carried out mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka killing center. Media Essay Warsaw: Maps. Glossary Terms.
Critical Thinking Questions Why did the Nazis resort to a system of ghettos? How do the actions of the inhabitants of the Warsaw ghetto illustrate the many ways oppressed peoples may resist the perpetrators? What factors and conditions might delay resistance by a persecuted group? Investigate how the Jews of Warsaw tried to maintain their religious and cultural identity and their humanity under the extreme stress of SS rule and deportations. Learn about the lives of the Jews in the community of Warsaw before Davies, Norman.
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The wounds of Warsaw In , the Nazis brutally quashed Warsaw's courageous rebellion against their rule as the Soviets looked on. Date
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