§ Quantized History #14

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July 22, 1942 » Systematic Extermination of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto Begins


Ruins of Warsaw Ghetto

Over 100,000 of the Ghetto's residents died of rampant disease, starvation, and arbitrary killings, even before the Nazis began massive deportations of the inhabitants from the Ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp. Between July 23 and September 21, 1942 about 254,000 Ghetto residents were sent to Treblinka and murdered there. In 1942 Polish resistance officer Jan Karski reported to the Western governments on the situation in the Ghetto and on the extermination camps. By the end of 1942, it was clear that the people were being deported to their deaths, and many of the remaining Jews decided to fight.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising crushed by Germans

Survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto

1. Icchak Cukierman - Resistance leader
2. Bronisław Geremek - Social historian and politician
3. Ludwik Hirszfeld - Microbiologist and serologist
4. Zivia Lubetkin - Resistance leader
5. Marcel Reich-Ranicki - Literary critic
6. Simcha Rotem - Resistance fighter, Nazi hunter
7. Władysław Szpilman - Pianist, composer, and memoirist
8. Menachem Mendel Taub, Kaliver Rebbe