Jim Rizoli - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Facts, Jul 22, 2025

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Published on Jul 23, 2025
The partisans took over the ghettos, smuggling in weapons and the Germans had to stop them

https://ihr.org/journal/v14n2p2_faurisson-html
The Warsaw Ghetto ‘Uprising’ Jewish Insurrection or German Police Operation? By Robert Faurisson: Each year, around April 19, the media and politicians commemorate what they call the Warsaw ghetto ‘uprising,’ ‘revolt’ or ‘insurrection.’ [1] In journalistic accounts the affair has taken on increasingly epic and symbolic proportions. At a Holocaust ceremony in New York in April 1993, American Vice President Al Gore declared: ‘The story of the Warsaw ghetto is sacred text for our time.’ [2] In fact, this ‘story’ is a legend based only partially on historical reality. ‘An insurrection never took place.’ [3] This remark is by Marek Edelman, who was a leader of one of the armed Jewish groups in the ghetto. He added: ‘We didn’t even choose the day; the Germans set it by entering the ghetto to find the last Jews.’ Edelman also stated that the number of Jews who took up arms never exceeded 220. (Other estimates of the number of Jewish ghetto fighters range from several hundred to as many as 2,000. In any case, no more than a minute portion of the ghetto population took part in the fighting.) [4] Edelman’s view has been confirmed by Yitzhak Zuckerman, another leader of the main Jewish armed group in the ghetto. Zuckerman has defined the ‘war aims’ of the Jewish fighters in these words: ‘For us it was a question of organizing a defense, not an uprising. In an uprising, the initiative is with the one rising up. We, we sought only to defend ourselves; the initiative was entirely on the side of the Germans.’ [5] This was no uprising of an entire community to gain its freedom or to resist deportation. It was, rather, the reaction of only a relative handful of young Jews who, seeing German troops penetrate their sanctuary, first fought back, then on the third day tried unsuccessfully to flee, and then, finally, surrounded, put up sustained armed resistance. [6] The whole thing should more accurately be called a German police operation rather than an ‘uprising’ or ‘insurrection’ by the Jews of Warsaw. By contrast, a real uprising was staged in Warsaw, August-October 1944, by the Polish Home Army, commanded by General ‘Bor’ Komorowski. However, the media scarcely notes this heroic insurrection, which the Soviets allowed the Germans to crush at their leisure. The Poles fought with such courage that the Germans permitted them to surrender with full military honors, treating them as prisoners of war under the Geneva convention rather than as terrorist insurgents. To understand what happened in the Warsaw ghetto in April-May 1943, it is important to know why the Germans decided to launch a police operation. In the city’s ‘Jewish quarter’ or ‘ghetto’ were 36,000 officially registered residents, as well as, in all probability, more than 20,000 clandestine inhabitants. [7] The ghetto was, in a sense, a city within a city, administered by a ‘Jewish Council’ (Judenrat), and a Jewish police force, which collaborated with the German occupation authorities, even against Jewish ‘terrorists.’ Many thousands of Jewish workers toiled in ghetto workshops and factories, supplying products vital to the German war effort. [...]
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