The war had started about one year before, and Germany was now occupying a large part of Europe. In October of 1940 the situation had, however, changed.
It would be a permanent hideaway for criminals and a breeding place for epidemics and such." When Heydrich presented his view on the Jewish question, the war had not started yet, and it was believed that the Jews could be forcibly expelled from Germany. "We will not be able to control a ghetto where only Jews would be housed. Two years before, on 12 November 1938, during a meeting of Ministry of Aviation, Reinhard Heydrich, the man responsible for the Nazi Party's approach to the Jewish question, spoke against the establishment of the ghetto. This would be the place where the Jewish inhabitants of Warsaw and nearby surroundings would be concentrated, locked away from the outside world. On 2 October 1940, the Warsaw Jews were informed of the establishment of the ghetto by order of Ludwig Fischer, Warsaw’s district governor. This is why we will begin this article with the establishment of the ghetto. The armed resistance did not emerge overnight, but it was a result of a gradual process that began with the very creation of the ghetto in the fall of 1940. Much attention is given to the processes and events which resulted in the final fights in the spring of 1943. This article describes the uprising and the elimination of the Warsaw ghetto. Even after that time, there was still talk of Jewish resistance in the former Warsaw ghetto. However, it was not until that Jürgen Stroop, the German commander in charge of the evacuation, was able to report to his superiors that his operation had succeeded. This time they decided that they would not be slaughtered without putting up a fight.Īlthough the Germans had expected some resistance, they expected to expel all remaining Jews from the ghetto within three days. They wanted to take revenge against the Germans who had deported their family members to the Treblinka extermination camp in the previous months. Jewish men and women had armed themselves and formed a fighting squad. When the Nazis began the final evacuation of the Warsaw ghetto on 19 April 1943, they met with fierce resistance.
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