The courtyard was covered in shards of glass, pieces of brick, of tin, of charred wood, of damaged piping and other debris, window frames, pieces of walls, furniture and household utensils; it all amounted to a sight which is hard to describe.
It was hard to find any kind of parallel. I was no stranger to destruction, including the last days of the siege of Warsaw. But the present destruction surpassed anything I had ever seen.
I go out into the street, [it is] burning! Everything around is on fire. Mila, Zamenhof, Kurza, Nalewki, Lubeckiego. Reasons therefore included the simple fact that closed ghettos were already there and therefore places of mass extermination should be located as near as possible to keep transport costs low.
The action of constructing camps for mass extermination of Jews was part of the plan code-named Operation Reinhard. The first actions of liquidating the ghettos began in the spring of From overpopulated ghettos Jews were deported to places specifically set up for immediate mass extermination as well as already existing concentration camps adapted for this purpose, such as Auschwitz and Majdanek.
The Germans are shelling and setting on fire one block of houses after another. Explosions and fires […]. This website uses cookies We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. Set cookie preferences. Skip to Main Content. Search our website Search Discovery, our catalogue. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. View full image. On behalf of those fighting back and all of us condemned to die we call to the whole world; It is imperative that the powerful retaliation of the United Nations shall fall upon the bloodthirsty enemy immediately and in some distant future, in a way which will make it quite clear what the retaliation is for.
That is why some people would volunteer for a deportation, tempted by food rations for the journey 3 kg of bread, 1 kg marmalade promised at the end of July. Some people wanted to join the members of their families who had been deported earlier. People were allowed to take with them 15 kg of luggage as well as money and valuables which thus went straight into the hands of their German executioners.
On 22 July, the first day of the so-called Great Liquidation Action, 6, people were deported. He arrived in Warsaw from Lublin, accompanied by the strong commando which included the Gestapo and SS guard unit members they were recruited from among the former Soviet POWs - Lithuanians, Latvians and Ukrainians.
The Jewish Ghetto Police were direct executors of the orders issued by the SS-men supervising the liquidation action; thus, they played an infamous role in rounding up people and forming transports at Umschlagplatz.
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