- Headline
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Polish Jews Fight Nazis In Ghetto
- Sub-Headline
- Convert Warsaw Homes To Forts
- Publication Date
- Friday, May 7, 1943
- Historical Event
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Warsaw Ghetto Jews Revolt
This database includes 727 articles about this event - Article Type
- Newspaper
- Page Section and Number
- 28
- Author/Byline
- UP
- Image Text
- Polish Jews Fight Nazis In Ghetto Convert Warsaw Homes To Forts London, May 6 (UP) pitched battle has been raging for days in Warsaw's Ghetto, where Jews have converted their homes into forts and barricaded shops and stores for defense posts, said today. The fighting against anPolish, nihilation by the Nazis, were reported using bedsteads as bunkers and fighting with arms smuggled into the ghetto. An underground Polish radio station several weeks ago broadcast an appeal from Warsaw for help. In a broadcast that was terminated abruptly, it reported that Warsaw's remaining Jews had been sentenced to death by the German occupation authorities and that women and children were defending themselves "with their bare arms. Polish sources here said that when German execution squads went into the ghetto, they were met by furious resistance and that fighting had been in progress since April 20. It was not known how high the casualties were running. Stirrings of revolt were reported from other European quarters as Spring and. invasion fever swept the Continent. The official German news agency, DNB. reported from Vichy that ten persons were injured at Toulouse last night when bomb exploded at a meeting addressed by Philippe Henriot, a widely known writer. Another Vichy dispatch broadcast from Berlin said Pierre Laval, chief of the Vichy Government, had received Krug Von Nidda, German representative in Vichy, and the Spanish and Swiss representatives yesterday. No details of the discussions were an• nounced. Indications of an open break in Holland resulting from the German order for the 400,000 former members of the Dutch Army to register for reinternment increased despite broadcasts from Allied and Netherlands spokesmen to patriots in Holland "hour to "*be patient," while awaiting the of delivery." Radio Hints At Outbreak Aneta News Agency said Dutch monitors had heard hints of an antioutbreak in broadcasts by the Nazi German controlled Netherlands radio during the last three days quelled by Axis guns. broadcast spoke of "a short, One on" and another told the fierce act Netherlands population was futile fight yourself to in the fire "to of German machine guns." Dutch sources here said they had received no direct information about 'any such outbreak. The situation still was acute in Sofia, where disorders were reported virtual house arrest of the despite city's inhabitants Athanas following the Panteff, assas- 50, sination of Col. former Bulgarian police chief. A dispatch to the Daily Express Istanbul said more than 1,000 from had been arrested in a twopersons house-to-house search for Panteff's assassins. Germany charged day that they were a "group of terrorists in the pay of a foreign government." The curfew ended last night and Sofians were permitted gain to travel on the streets. In Belgium, saboteurs were reported blown up the locks on the to have Dender River. blocking the transportation of vital German supplies. for of of is of
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Bibliography
Gutman, Israel. The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revolt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982.
Kassow, Samuel D. Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes Archive. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2007.
Krakowski, Shmuel. The War of the Doomed: Jewish Armed Resistance in Poland, 1942-1944. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1984.
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