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When the Nazis decided to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943, five hundred young Jewish fighters within the Ghetto rose up to defy them. With no weapons, no influence, and no experience in warfare, they managed to resist the Germans for almost a month. In the end, when the battle was lost, the surviving Jews were led out of the ruins through the sewers by a nineteen-year-old fighter known as Kazik.
As head courier of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB), which had planned and executed the uprising, Kazik spent the rest of the war helping to care for the several thousand Jews who still remained in Warsaw. This book - an extraordinary story of courage and perseverance - is Kazik's wartime memoir. In stark, spare detail, Kazik reports on the efforts to prepare for the defense of the Warsaw Ghetto, the calamitous battle with the Germans, and the rescue of the few Jews who were still alive after the Ghetto was destroyed. He describes how he assumed a false Aryan identity in order to pass through the city as he collected money and found hiding places for the survivors.
Constantly on guard, fearful of informers, his life always in danger, he nevertheless plotted resourcefully to aid his fellow Jews. He tells how he joined the Poles during their ill-fated uprising against the Nazis in Warsaw in 1944, had further brushes with death assisting the Polish underground, and returned to Warsaw to watch its liberation by the Russian army.
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Jewish resistance, Jews, Persecutions, Ethnic relations, World War, 1939-1945, Personal narratives, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (Poland), Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives, Jews, persecutions, Warsaw (poland), World war, 1939-1945, underground movements, poland, Getto's, Verzet, Joden, Widerstand, Historical, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Warschauer Aufstand, Warsaw (poland), history, Jewish soldiers, Biography, Jewish Personal narratives, Jewish ParticipationPeople
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Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto Fighter
June 1, 2002, Yale University Press
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Memoirs of a Warsaw Ghetto fighter: the past within me
1994, Yale University Press
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Au cœur de la résistance du ghetto de Varsovie, femmes et hommes d'à peine vingt ans, affamés, armés de leur seul courage et de quelques pistolets, défient la machine de guerre nazie. Ils font entrer armes et nourriture en contrebande, conçoivent des explosifs artisanaux, libèrent des camarades emprisonnés. En avril 1943, après avoir cerné le ghetto, les Allemands, équipés d'armes lourdes, de chars d'assaut et soutenus par l'aviation, se lancent à l'assaut. Simha Rotem, surnommé Kazik, et l'Organisation juive de combat livrent dans les ruines fumantes une bataille désespérée. Ils parviennent à résister pendant près d'un mois avant l'inéluctable destruction. En un épisode devenu célèbre, Kazik réussit alors à faire échapper les rares rescapés en empruntant les égouts vers le " côté aryen " de Varsovie. D'autres insurgés auront moins de chance, se perdront et se noieront. Ensuite, Kazik et son mouvement organiseront le sauvetage des juifs encore terrés dans la capitale. Lors du déclenchement de l'insurrection nationale de 1944, Kazik rejoint les rangs de la résistance polonaise et affronte une nouvelle fois l'occupant nazi. Ce témoignage brut, spontané, parfois naïf d'un adolescent offre une perspective nouvelle sur le combat et la survie des Juifs pendant la Shoah. Aujourd'hui encore, la lutte impossible de ces femmes et de ces hommes reste une inspiration pour toutes les résistances.
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