The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Ashley Cardoso
College:
The Dorothy and George Hennings College of Science, Mathematics, and Technology
Major:
Clinical Lab Science
Faculty Research Advisor(s):
Adara Goldberg
Abstract:
The Warsaw Ghetto, established by Nazis in 1940, aimed to consolidate the entire Jewish population of Warsaw, Poland into a confined area. As it became the largest ghetto in Europe, Jews forced to live here faced harsh conditions from German soldiers, along with constant threats of deportation. The ghetto itself had horrible conditions, with many becoming sick from diseases or suffering from starvation with little food. Those trapped in the Warsaw Ghetto began to collectivize and resist the violence from the German soldiers. These groups began to solidify into a civilian army, and this army put up a fight against the Nazis for weeks, before ultimately falling to German aggression. The period of conflict framed by the Polish Jews resistance to Nazi power is known today as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This study examines the Jewish response to the Warsaw Ghetto, and examines the subsequent uprising that emerged from the internment.