Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Summary

In the Warsaw Ghetto 300,000 Men, Women, and children were sent to the death camp Treblinka. Once news got out that the rest of the Jews remaining in the Ghetto were going to be deported, two resistance groups were formed, the Z.O.B. and the Z.Z.W. There was some tension between the two groups, but because they were for the same cause, they tried to work together. Using smuggled weapons, the two groups surprised the Nazis forcing their commander, Jurgen Stroop to call a retreat. Soon after the attack, Jurgen Stroop ordered that all buildings be burned down, forcing many Jews into the streets, where they were rounded up, and sent to Treblinka. Many bunkers were also gassed killing, or exposing Jews to German officers. The operation for the Warsaw Ghetto was meant to take place in under three days, but the Jews managed to hold out for over a month. To symbolize German victory, Stroop announced that the synagogue outside the Ghetto was going to be blown up. In totalabout 300 German soldiers were killed by the resistance fighters, and almost 7,000 Jews were killed or otherwisedied during the Germans attempts to quell the uprising. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising ended badly for the Warsaw Jews but caused a string of revolutions in other Ghettos that benefitted the Jews i the long run.