Mordechai Anielewicz

I don’t live a normal life of a 23 year old; I am the Organizer and group leader of the Z.O.B which stands for 

Jewish Fighting Organization.  My name is Mordechai Anielewicz was born and I was raised in a poor family in 

Warsaw, Poland. I was born in 1919. After I finished secondary school I joined the Z.O.B which stands for 

the Jewish Fighting Organization. At the age of only 23 I was the Organizer and group leader of the group. I 

was in this group with another 200 people, we were all trying to accomplish the same goal; protect the ghetto

and all of the Jews. .  The chouse I decided to make was to fight against the Germans. I decided to do this 

because I wanted to fight and protect the Ghetto and everyone in it because I just didn’t want to give up 

without a fight.  I hope that what I am doing is saving the Jews lives and the safety of the Ghetto battle and the

Ghetto is safe and so aren’t all of the Jewish people in it.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

                                                     

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising started on April 19, 1943 and lasted until May 16 of the same year. It took place in Eastern Europe this event happened because the Germans planed to evacuate all the Jews from the ghetto but the Jews did not want that to happen so they fought back.  The groups that were involved were the German Police and the Z.O.B this stands for the Jewish Fighting Organization. This event lead to the holocaust and was going on during World War two.
In the event the Germans entered the Ghetto for the last deportation. The Jews hid in the Ghetto that morning and were armed with many different types of weapons such as pistles, rifles, grenades and a couple automatic weapons. The Jew fighters held the evacuation of the ghetto to over a month when it was only supposed to take three days.  There were Seven hundred and fifty German police with rifles and pistols ready to attack.  The Jews did not want to just let the Germans capture them with a fight. The Germans did what ever it took to get the Ghetto back under their control; they did not care if that meant to kill the Jews. The Germans tried to destroy the Ghetto: that was part of a plan to get the Jews to come out of the buildings that they were hiding in, that was very helpful to the Germans success. All the Jews that the German found they took to various concentration camps. On May 16^th German leader announced that the fighting was over and they were going to blow up the Great Synagogue as a celebration the Great Synagogue was located right outside of the Ghetto.  Finally after almost a month 56,065 Jews were captured and brought to concentration camps. Also there were 300 Germans and 7,000 Jews that were killed in this event. This is what happened in The Uprising of the Warsaw ghetto and how many Jews and Germans were killed. 

                                                                             

                       

                           Achim Weber - Perpetrator

Today was going to be the day that we invaded the ghetto and took all the Jews to the concentration camps for the last deportation. My name is Achim Weber and I am a German officer.

As we entered the Ghetto I was so happy to finally get all the filthy Jews to concentration camps where they belong. When we entered there were no Jews in sight. Then all of a sodden they appeared with weapons in there hands. But there weapons were no match to ours they only had hand made ones. We also out numbered. I was wondering why they were putting up a fight when they new we would win anyways, there was no need for them to waist there time playing around.

Our job was to capture as many Jews as we could and get the ghetto back under our control and I was ready to do whatever it took to do so. I grabbed a Jew family and 

Journal Entry for Victim

                                        
I have been living in the Ghetto for all of my live and things have gone great it has been like our own little world just Jews. We were never judged made fun of or tested in the Ghetto because we were all the same. My name is Abiela Aaron On the day of the uprising I was terrified. I had no idea what was going on or what to do. I quickly  gathered my family and hoped for the best, and that we would stay together. 
The Germans greatly out numbered the Jews. Everywhere I looked all I saw were Germans and only a couple of Jews. There were Jews being thrown into wagons and shot down. I thought we were never going to survive. As we wondered down the streets trying to find a safe place to hide my 12 year old daughter and 7 year old son disappeared. I franticly ran around trying to find them but I never did. Now all that was left of my family was me.  As I walked around looking for anyone I knew a man got shot right next to me. All I was thinking was how lucky I was not to be him. Then all of a sodden a large group of Germans came running towards me and I had no place to go. They grabbed me and threw me into a dark wagon with a few other people; no one said anything we just sat there. There was a guard in the wagon with us making sure no one tried to escape. Then the wagon started to move but no one had any idea were we were going. All I hoped that where we were going I would meet my family there. If I do not live to write any more writing I hope that my family is ok and that all the Jews are all right. I hope this is not last of my writing.
        Sincerely,
          Abiela Aaron

Journal Entry Bystander- Bogna Nowak

I looked out my window and was terrified what I saw. My name is Bogna Nowak

 I live right outside of the Ghetto of Warsaw and have two children twin girls they are seven years old.  One morning I opened the shades and looked out the window,  I saw people running, hiding and fighting, I had no idea what was going on. I woke up my kids and ran into the hall. There were many other families out there all wondering the same thing as me. I asked one family what was going on and they had no idea, I asked everyone what was going on but no one knew. All as I knew was the it looked light a fight between the Germans and the Jew and I could not believe that people would such cruel thing to each other.  I could not believe that someone would do such a terrible thing. I grabbed my two kids and ran back into my apartment, and closed all of the shades, windows and locked all of the doors.  Even though I felt bad for the people in need I grabbed a book and read it to my kids. I did not want anything to do what was going on right outside of my apartment, all that I cared about at that very moment was that me and my family were safe. When I look back on writing I could not believe that I just sat and watched and pretended like every thing was ok when people were being killed and family’s were being separated. And now twenty years after the event I know what happened on this very day and where all the Jews were being brought to and what horrible things that the Germans were doing to them.