The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: The Uprising Of Warsaw

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The Warsaw ghetto organized the Jewish Fighting Organisation (ZOB), an organization dedicated to resisting the Nazis. They fought against the Nazis instead of just rolling over for them. Even though they lost their struggle they still held their ground and held hope that they could maybe win the fight against death. “In the summer of 1942, about 300,000 Jews were deported from Warsaw to Treblinka”(Holocaust Museum). People heard of the mass killings and it was during the first deportation that the ZOB was formed. Mordecai Anielewicz became their commander at the age of 23. In January of 1943 they fired on the Germans, taking them by surprise, with guns that they had smuggled into the ghetto. The Germans then retreated after a few days, giving