- Headline
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Warsaw Ghetto Wiped Out As Germans Deport Jews
- Publication Date
- Friday, June 4, 1943
- Historical Event
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Warsaw Ghetto Jews Revolt
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- Newspaper
- Location
- Page Section and Number
- 11
- Author/Byline
- AP
- Article Text
- Stockholm, June 4.—(AP)—The Germans were reported today to have virtually wiped out the Warsaw Ghetto by deporting 14,000 Jews to the East after three weeks of desperate street-fighting in which 2,000 were shot to death, and 3,000 died in their flaming homes.
A secret Polish radio station heard here last night said the Jews in the walled Ghetto, scene of other bloody programs since the Nazis overran Poland, had given a good account of themselves by killing 300 German elite troops and wounding 2,000 others.
The broadcast said the Jews defended themselves behind barricades as the Nazi troops marched on the Ghetto April 13.
Resistance at the barricades continued until April 24, the report added, and then street and house fighting raged for a week or more as the Germans pressed in with the aid of artillery, machine guns, flame throwers and light bombing planes.
Mines and bombs blasted entire blocks of buildings and fires swept many sections of the Ghetto, the broadcast said. Water, gas and electricity were shut off and the Jews were finally forced to give in.
The station, Radio SWIT, was the same which, on April 21, broadcast in the midst of the fighting:
"The last 35,000 Jews in the Ghetto at Warsaw have been condemned to execution. Warsaw again is echoing to musketry volleys. The people are murdered. Women and children defend themselves with their naked arms.
"Save us . . . "
The station then went dead.
(Last night's broadcast did not make clear whether any Jews now remain in the Ghetto, once crowded with 400,000 persons, but it was recalled that on May 14 Rabbi Irving Miller, of New York, secretary-general of the World Jewish congress, declared in London, that 40,000 Jews had been murdered or forcibly removed from Warsaw.
(He said the action was taken when the Jews revolted against inhuman treatment.) - History Unfolded Contributor
- Rusty L.
- Location of Research
- Utah Digital Newspapers (https://newspapers.lib.utah.edu/search or https://digitalnewspapers.org/)
Learn More about this Historical Event: Warsaw Ghetto Jews Revolt
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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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