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Essay / The Warsaw Ghetto Resistance - 1555
A. Investigation PlanThe investigation explores why the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the most important ghetto resistance during the Holocaust. In order to analyze why the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was important, research must be conducted to study the elements of the Warsaw Ghetto that contributed to its success. The main sources for this investigation are Ghetto Fights: Warsaw 1941-43 by Marek Edelman as it is a study aimed at examining the political and ideological context of the Warsaw Uprising and Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust by David Engel because it covers the uprisings. in ghettos other than Warsaw.B. Summary of Evidence Approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime during the Holocaust. When Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933, there were 566,000 Jews living in Germany. The first concentration camp, Dachau, was established on March 22, 1933. Other concentration camps established at this time included Buchenwald and Ravensbruck. The first people arrested were communists, union leaders and communists. From 1933 to 1938, Jews were progressively stripped of their rights, from not being able to own land to not being considered citizens under the Nuremberg racial laws. Attacks on Jewish businesses and synagogues began on November 9, 1938 when in two days, more than 7,000 Jewish businesses and 250 synagogues were destroyed by the Germans. Additionally, Jews were arrested and killed while these tragedies were occurring. This series of events is known as Kristallnacht. This marks the beginning of extreme discrimination and ultimately genocide of the Jewish population. Ghettos were closed urban areas in which the Germans concentrated the Jewish population....... middle of paper ...... David, Yitzchak Mais, and Eva Fogelman. Dare to resist: Jewish defiance in the face of the Holocaust. New York: Museum of Jewish Heritage, 2007. Print. Gutman, Israel. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: ghetto, clandestinity, revolt. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1982. Print. Kondracki, Tadeusz. “The Warsaw Uprising”. http://www.polishresistance-ak.org/. Np, October 1, 2001. Web. April 6, 2014. Landau, Elaine. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. New York: New Discovery, 1992. Print. Mark, Bernard. Uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. New York: Schocken, 1975. Print. Ney-Krwawicz, Marek. “The Polish Underground State and the Home Army.” http://www.polishresistance-ak.org/. Np, October 1, 2001. Web. April 6, 2014.Ochayon, Sheryl. “Armed resistance in the ghettos: the dilemma of revolt”. Armed resistance in the ghettos: the dilemma of revolt. International School of Holocaust Studies, nd Web. April 6. 2014.