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Warsaw Ghetto and Warsaw Ghetto Uprising **



The Warsaw Ghetto was created soon after Hitler invaded and took over Poland. Warsaw was named the capital of Poland in 1596. Warsaw was home to many people of the Jewish Faith. Within about a month Hitler had the city of Warsaw surrounded into a Ghetto. The Ghetto was guarded all the time to prevent people from trying to escape. Most people were deported to labor, concentration or extermination camps. There were bombs going on all around them. The people in the ghetto asked if they could build shelters and the German army said they could. They left them for a few days so they could build their shelters. When they came back the people in the Ghetto tried to fight back and attack the German Army, this began the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. They tried to attack them with anything they could find. Some people tried to hide so they wouldn’t get hurt or killed in the fighting; others took the front line trying to fight the German army off. People hid in the sewers and old buildings. They were not successful. They made a good attempt but were not successful because the German army was more powerful and more modern technology then just knives and other objects that the Jewish people were using. The battle was important to the Holocaust because it is the first time anyone tried to stop the German Army. For more information on the Warsaw Ghetto and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and to better answer the questions click [|here] or [|here].

**What was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?**

 **From looking at the pictures above how do you think the people in the Warsaw Ghetto felt living there?** Links * 1st one - []
 * Did anyone try to stop the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and were they successful?**

2nd one - http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/ghettos/warsawghetto.html