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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Photo from Jürgen Stroop

Report to Heinrich Himmler from May 1943.

The original German caption reads:

"Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Stroop_Report_-_Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising_06.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

Other source

http://www.ushmm.org/lcmedia/viewer/wlc/photo.php?RefId=46199

Irving Milchberg 1927-2014

(born Ignac Milchberg)

plucky Jewish

street urchin (who) escaped transport

to concentration camps three times

and sold cigarettes to Nazis

in the heart of occupied Warsaw

while smuggling guns and food

to resistance fighters

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/
world/europe/irving-milchberg-smuggled-guns-under-nazis-noses-in-warsaw-dies-at-86.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/
world/europe/
irving-milchberg-smuggled-guns-under-nazis-noses-in-warsaw-
dies-at-86.html

Vladka Meed 1921-2012

(born Feigele Peltel)

with her flawless Polish

and Aryan good looks

(she) was able to smuggle pistols,

gasoline for firebombs

and even dynamite

to the Jewish fighters

inside the Warsaw Ghetto

(...)

after the war

(she) became an impassioned leader

in the national effort to educate children

about the Holocaust

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/
world/vladka-meed-who-infiltrated-warsaw-ghetto-dies-at-90.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/
world/vladka-meed-who-infiltrated-warsaw-ghetto-
dies-at-90.html

Jürgen Stroop 1895-1952

(born Josef Stroop)

a war criminal and SS general

who had led the infamous destruction

of the Warsaw ghetto

and was responsible for the murder or capture

of more than 56,000 Jews.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/17/
conversations-with-an-executioner-
a-chilling-classic-reveals-the-mind-of-a-nazi-mass-murderer

German SS commander

and perpetrator of the Holocaust

during the Nazi era,

who served as SS and Police Leader

in occupied Poland and Greece

from 1942–1943 (in Poland)

and 1943–1944 (in Greece).

He held the rank of SS-Gruppenführer

und Generalleutnant der Polizei

from 1942–1945

(equivalent to a Heer Generalleutnant/

Lt-Gen in the Wehrmacht).

He led the suppression

of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943

and wrote the Stroop Report,

a twelve-page account of the operation annexed

with many original documents and pictures.

Following the defeat of Germany,

Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials

and convicted of murdering

nine U.S. prisoners of war.

After his extradition to Poland,

Stroop was tried, convicted,

and executed for crimes against humanity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jürgen_Stroop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Stroop_Report

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/17/
conversations-with-an-executioner-
a-chilling-classic-reveals-the-mind-of-a-nazi-mass-murderer

The Stroop Report

is an official report prepared

by Gruppenführer Jürgen Stroop

for Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler,

recounting the German suppression

of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

and the liquidation of the ghetto

in the spring of 1943.

Originally titled

The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More!

(Ger. Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk

in Warschau mehr!),

it was published in the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Stroop_Report

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jürgen_Stroop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Franz_Konrad_(SS_officer)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Josef_Blösche

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Heinrich_Himmler

https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/12/
the-ghetto-the-nazis-and-one-small-boy/

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/25/
opinion/
IHT-1951holocaust-trial-in-our-pages100-75-and-50-years-ago.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/05/28/
nyregion/rockland-physican-thinks-
he-is-the-boy-in-holocaust-photo-taken-in-warsaw.html

https://www.nytimes.com/1969/05/24/
archives/
nazi-photograph-helps-convict-nazi-murderers-dossier-on-success-of.html

Warsaw Ghetto

The largest ghetto in Poland

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising January-May 1943

On October 12, 1940,

the Germans decreed

the establishment of a ghetto

in Warsaw.

The decree required

all Jewish residents of Warsaw

to move into a designated area,

which German authorities sealed off

from the rest of the city

in November 1940.

The ghetto was enclosed by a wall

that was over 10 feet high,

topped with barbed wire,

and closely guarded to prevent movement

between the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw.

The population of the ghetto,

increased by Jews

compelled to move in from nearby towns,

was estimated to be over 400,000 Jews.

German authorities

forced ghetto residents

to live in an area of 1.3 square miles,

with an average of 7.2 persons per room.

http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005069

The Warsaw ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland.

Photograph: Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images

Why are we obsessed with the Nazis?

Friday 6 February 2015 12.01 GMT

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/06/
why-obsessed-nazis-third-reich

Bodies of dead Jews killed by starvation and/or the Nazis

lie in a communal grave in the Jewish ghetto of Warsaw.

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Date taken: 1941

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/
l?imgurl=8a8f62344a66dc12 - broken link

Poland

People shopping at the market off Dzielna Street

in the Jewish ghetto.

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Date taken: 1938

Photograph: John Phillips

Life Images

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/
l?imgurl=b66217d7ece1c38f - broken link

Warsaw ghetto

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/16/
newsid_3501000/3501730.stm

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/
warsaw-ghetto-uprising

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/
warsaw

https://www.archives.gov/research/military/ww2/
photos

https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/warsaw_ghetto/
index.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Jürgen_Stroop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Stroop_Report

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Warsaw_Ghetto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Warsaw_Uprising

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
The_Pianist_(2002_film)

https://www.google.com/maps/@52.229906,21.018893,13z
?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDgxMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/aug/17/
conversations-with-an-executioner-a-chilling-classic-reveals-
the-mind-of-a-nazi-mass-murderer

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/27/
i-knew-nothing-the-warsaw-ghetto-boy-who-found-his-family-at-83-
holocaust-survivor

https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/culture-et-idees/060523/
les-femmes-resistantes-du-ghetto-de-varsovie-
oubliees-de-l-histoire

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/22/
lost-photos-warsaw-uprising-reveal-horror-jews-last-stand

https://www.npr.org/2023/01/21/
1150586336/warsaw-ghetto-uprising-1943-photos-found

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/09/02/
908732924/the-warsaw-ghetto-can-teach-the-world-
how-to-beat-back-an-outbreak

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/05/
survived-warsaw-ghetto-wartime-lessons-extremism-europe

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/02/
world/israel-gutman-who-survived-and-documented-holocaust-
dies-at-90.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/
opinion/the-jewish-hero-history-forgot.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/25/
world/vladka-meed-who-infiltrated-warsaw-ghetto-
dies-at-90.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/oct/04/
secondworldwar-holocaust

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/sep/09/
jewish-uprising-warsaw-ghetto-nazis-holocaust

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/feb/25/
secondworldwar.usa

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jul/25/
artsfeatures.dvdreviews2

https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/
Critic_Review/Observer_review/0,4267,882391,00.html - 26 January 2003

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jan/24/
artsfeatures6

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2003/jan/10/
artsfeatures

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2001/jun/22/
artsfeatures2

Warsaw Ghetto

During the summer of 1942,

the Germans sent more than 265,000 Jews

from the ghetto to the gas chambers,

and shot thousands more.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/opinion/the-jewish-hero-history-forgot.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/
opinion/the-jewish-hero-history-forgot.html

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