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WARSAW RISING The forgotten soldiers of WWII part 2

The CNN's documentary about warsaw rising 1944

 

Warsaw 1944

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXHuzSbAH6U

 

Holocaust survivor Marcel Reich-Ranicki describes the cultural life in
the Warsaw Ghetto. The video is excerpted from the film "Warsaw Ghetto
- Culture Without Walls" from the Holocaust History Museum in Yad
Vashem.
For more information:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/03/warsaw.asp

This video is one of many that can be viewed in Yad Vashem's Holocaust
History Museum:
http://bit.ly/hPaH66

Holocaust survivors Halina Birenbaum, Masha Putermilch, and Yosef
Charny describe the mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto in the
summer of 1942. The video is an excerpt from the film "The Mass
Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto" in the Holocaust History Museum in
Yad Vashem.
For more information:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/07/warsaw_uprising.asp
Or in Hebrew: http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/he/holocaust/about/07/warsaw_uprising.asp

This video is one of many that can be viewed in Yad Vashem's Holocaust
History Museum:
http://bit.ly/hPaH66

Rachel Nurman, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto & 4 concentration camps.
My mother.

Read more about her at my tribute site ...
http://www.RachelNurman.com

Evidence of What The Nazis Did To The Jews In Warsaw / Video

Evidence of What The Nazis Did To The Jews In Warsaw / Video. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in Warsaw, former capital of Poland in the General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. Primary materials, footage and photographs shot by the Nazis themselves, and the narrator was a survivor of the ghetto. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the Jewish ghettos established by Nazi Germany in Warsaw, former capital of Poland in the General Government during the Holocaust in World War II. Between 1941 and 1943, starvation, disease and deportations to concentration camps and extermination camps dropped the population of the ghetto from an estimated 450,000 to approximately 70,000. In 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto was the scene of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first urban mass rebellion against the Nazi occupation of Europe. The Warsaw Ghetto was established by the German Governor-General Hans Frank on October 16, 1940. At this time, the population of the Ghetto was estimated to be 440,000 people, about 37% of the population of Warsaw. However, the size of the Ghetto was about 4.5% of the size of Warsaw. Nazis then closed off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world on November 16, 1940, building a wall with armed guards. During the next year and a half, thousands of the Polish Jews as well as some Romani people from smaller cities and the countryside were brought into the Ghetto, while diseases (especially typhoid) and starvation kept the inhabitants at about the same number. Average food rations in 1941 for Jews in Warsaw were limited to 253 kcal, compared to 2,325 kcal for gentile Poles and 5,613 kcal for German people. The life in the ghetto was chronicled by the Oyneg Shabbos group. In 1942 Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski reported to the Western governments on the situation in the Ghetto and on the extermination camps. Round-up of residents of the Ghetto, January 1943. Over 100,000 of the Ghetto's residents died due to rampant disease or starvation, as well as random killings, even before the Nazis began massive deportations of the inhabitants from the Ghetto's Umschlagplatz to the Treblinka extermination camp during Operation Reinhard. Between Tisha B'Av, July 23, 1942, and Yom Kippur, September 21, 1942, about 254,000 Ghetto residents were sent to Treblinka and murdered there. By the end of 1942, it was clear that the deportations were to their deaths, and many of the remaining Jews decided to fight. On the eve of WW2 the Jewish population in Warsaw numbered 337,000, about 29% of the total population of the city, this figure rose to 445,000 by March 1941. Early September 1939 following the German invasion of Poland on 31 August 1939, the German forces reached the southern and western parts of the city on 8 and 9 September 1939. Within a few days they had surrounded the city from all sides, Warsaw bravely stood up to the German siege for 3 weeks, with air attacks and artillery shelling causing heavy damage and significant loss of life. As a result of the constant bombardments from the air and by artillery fire, there was a great exodus from the city. Warsaw's mayor Stefan Starzynski appointed Adam Czerniakow as Chairman of the Jewish Council on 23 September 1939. From the first days of the occupation the Jews were subjected to attacks and discrimination, such as being driven from food lines, seized for forced labour and assaults on religious Jews wearing their traditional garbs. Teachers, craftsman, professionals, members of welfare and cultural institutions lost their positions, without any compensation, with little or no prospect of obtaining similar positions. Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 England & Wales.

 

The Warsaw Uprising 1944 / Powstanie Warszawskie

The Warsaw Uprising (Powstanie Warszawskie) was a World War II struggle by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. The Uprising began on August 1, 1944, as part of a nationwide rebellion, Operation Tempest. It was intended to last for only a few days until the Soviet Army would reach the city. The Soviet advance stopped short, however, while Polish resistance against the German forces continued for 63 days (until October 2).

The Uprising began at a crucial juncture as the Soviet Army was approaching Warsaw. The Uprising's chief objective was to drive the German occupiers from the city, helping with the larger fight against the Axis. Secondary political objectives were to liberate Warsaw before the Red Army arrived, so as to underscore Polish sovereignty, and to undo the Allied division of Central Europe into spheres of influence. Polish authorities were to reappear in liberated Warsaw and challenge the Soviet puppet government that was to rule Poland.

By September 16, 1944, Soviet forces had reached a point a few hundred metres from the city, across the Vistula River, but they made no further headway during the Uprising leading to allegations that Stalin had wanted the insurrection to fail.

Polish losses amounted to 18,000 soldiers killed and 25,000 wounded, in addition to between 120,000 and 200,000 civilian deaths, mostly from mass murders conducted by retreating German troops. German casualties totalled over 17,000 soldiers killed and over 9,000 wounded. During the urban combat approximately 25% of Warsaw's buildings were destroyed. Following the surrender of Polish forces on October 2, German troops systematically burned the city block by block. Together with earlier damage suffered in 1939 and during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943), over 85% of the city had been destroyed. By January 1945, when the Soviets finally entered the city, Warsaw had practically ceased to exist.

Songs Translation (thank You
tajakjejtam):

Where are flower from those years?
Bright flowers.
Where are flower from those years?
The time has covered up the trail.
Where are flower from those years?
Each of girls have took the flower.
Who knows if it was like that?x2
Where are girls from those years?
Just like those flowers.
Where are girls from those years?
The time has covered up the trail.
Where are girls from those years?
They have been gone, following the boys around the world.
Who knows if it was like that? x2
Where are boys from those years?
Courage brave hearts.
Where are boys from those years?
The time has covered up the trail.
Where are boys from those years?
They have been gone to walk on the soldiers route.
Who knows if it was like that? x2
Where are our soldiers-flowers?
Those from previous years?
Where are our soldiers-flowers?
The time has covered up the trail.
Where are soldiers from those-years?
There where the sign of (Christan) cross stands on filed.
Who knows if it was like that? x2
Where are graves from old times?
There where flowers are.
Where are graves from old times?
The time ha covered up the trail.
Where are graves from old times?
There, where the flowers have been seed by the wind.
Who knows if it was like that? x2
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No disaster will broke free people
No difficulty will fear the brave people
We will walk together for the victory
When the people will stand together, arm by arm

Warsaw's childrens, we will go fight
For each stone of you, Capital, we will give blood
Warsaw's childrens, we will go fight
When your command will be given
We will bear the anger to our enemys x2

Powi?le, Wola and Mokotów (*names of Warsaw districkts)
Each little street, each house.
When the first shot will be given, be ready!
Like a gold thunder in the God hand.

Warsaw's childrens, we will go fight
(Warsaws childrens)
For each stone of you, Capital, we will give blood
Warsaw's childrens, we will go fight
(Warsaw's chilredns)
When your command will be given
We will bear the anger to our enemys x2

Warsaw's childrens, we will go fight
For each stone of you, Capital, we will give blood
Warsaw's childrens, we will go fight
When your command will be given
We will bear the anger to our enemys x2

Music:
"Gdzie S? Kwiaty"
"Warszawskie Dzieci"

 

Adam Aston, przedwojenna Warszawa 1935

Adam Aston - Szkoda... (Pity) (Alfred Scher), Odeon ok. 1935

 

Warszawa Singera 2007 part1

Festiwal Kultury ?ydowskiej Warszawa Singera
Jewish Culture Festival: Malovany Hasidic Cappella Klezmer Orchestra Snunit Clil Eric Freeman Berel Zucker Mitch&Mitch

 

Purim in Warsaw Synagogue

3.III.2007 Nozyk Synagogue in Warsaw (Poland)

 

In the Ghetto

Looking down from KPMG's offices on Lucka Street over the old Warsaw ghetto, and the developments that are transforming this from a place of tragedy to a center of prosperity. Many of these investments are Israeli funded, ex Warsaw jews determined to eradicate the sad history with something positive and forward looking.

 

Holocaust Survivor Describes Ghetto and Death Camp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jhDu_Y1sPiE
Yisrael Gutman was born in Warsaw in 1923. His parents and older
sister perished in the ghetto, and his younger sister was a member of
Janusz Korczak's orphanage. As a member of the Jewish Underground in
the Warsaw ghetto, Yisrael Gutman was wounded in the uprising. From
Warsaw he was taken to Majdanek, and from there to Auschwitz. In May
1945 he was sent on the death march to Mauthausen. In total, he spent
two years in the camps. After the war he helped in the rehabilitation
of survivors, was active in the Bericha movement, and immigrated to
Palestine in 1946. A world-renowned scholar of Holocaust studies,
Prof. Gutman has dedicated his life to studying the Holocaust and
perpetuating its lessons for the next generations.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jhDu_Y1sPiE

 

Holocaust Survivor Testmonies: The Mass Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jaNlJgzRYn0

Holocaust survivors Halina Birenbaum, Masha Putermilch, and Yosef
Charny describe the mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto in the
summer of 1942. The video is an excerpt from the film "The Mass
Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto" in the Holocaust History Museum in
Yad Vashem.
For more information:
http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/about/07/warsaw_uprising.asp
Or in Hebrew: http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/he/holocaust/about/07/warsaw_uprising.a

 

Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Hannah Gofrit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=LTkSphGwBdk
Hannah Gofrit was born in 1935 in the town of Bia?a Rawska, Poland, to
Hershel and Zisel Hershkowitz. With the Nazi conquest, Hannah was
forbidden from attending school, and her parents tutored her at home.
Hannahs family was allowed to live outside the ghetto established in
the town, as her mother worked as a seamstress for the German forces.
Hannahs parents arranged to hide her with a Polish family, but Hannah
refused, and joined them hiding in an underground potato shed.

At the end of 1942 the towns Jews were deported to Treblinka. The
family's neighbor, Mrs. Moshalkova, managed to obtain forged documents
just for Hannah and her mother. Her father's fate remains unknown.

For two years, the women hid in the Warsaw apartment of the Skowroneks
(later recognized as Righteous Among the Nations), helping their
rescuers as much as possible. They were forbidden to look out the
window or wear shoes, for fear of teir discovery. Hannah and her
mother were saved during a Gestapo raid when one of the daughters hid
them in the attic. On Christmas, when the Skowroneks had guests over,
Hannah and her mother hid in a closet. Inside the dark closet, Hannah
imagined herself flying into free, open spaces, like a butterfly.

After their documents were burned in the bombing of Warsaw, the women
masqueraded as devout Polish Catholics. There were deported to the
labor camp in Senftenberg near Leipzig, where they were employed in an
AEG plant. As the Red Army approached, Hannah and her mother fled.
They returned to their hometown, where they discovered they were the
only survivors from their entire family. They left the following day
for Lodz, where Zisel married Yosef Kupershmid, a Holocaust survivor
whose wife and daughter had been murdered. A year later, Hannahs
brother Avraham was born.

In January 1949 Hannah emigrated to Israel, and settled in Tel Aviv.
After attending nursing school, she worked as a public health nurse.
For her devoted work, Hannah was awarded the Namir Labor Prize. She
continued working as the chief nurse in Tel Aviv's Public Health
Division until her retirement.

With the help of Naomi Morgenstern, Hannah wrote her memoirs, I Wanted
to Fly Like a Butterfly. Translated into six languages, the book is
read extensively in classrooms in Israel and abroad. Hannah
corresponds and meets with its young readers from around the world.

Hannah is married to Yitzhak, is the mother of Ofer and has three grandchildren.

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/remembrance/2010/torchlighters.asp

 

Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Published on Sep 7, 2012 by Taube Philanthropies
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, built on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, will honor and celebrate 1000 years of Jewish life and culture in Poland. This film documents the Museum's development from its groundbreaking in 2007 and includes footage of volunteers building the replica of the 17th-century Gwo?dziec Synagogue, a keystone of the Core Exhibition. The film is a succinct and engaging portrait of an enormous work in progress, including breathtaking helicam views of the building exterior. In the film, Dr Elie Wiesel explains why the Museum, opening in 2013, is so important: "The Museum is a geographical place of memory, and you cannot be in the place of the Ghetto Uprising and not feel something very deep. There were 1,000 years of Jewish history in Poland; 1,000 years of activity, of extraordinary aspirations and endeavors and dreams and metamorphoses; 1,000 years, which must be studied and communicated and shared."