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243: 152: 30: 258:. With other young women imprisoned in the Warsaw Ghetto, she was forced to work in a brush factory. As the final liquidation of the ghetto approached, Zdrojewicz and her colleagues deserted their jobs and descended into the sewers, stockpiling arms to resist the Nazis. She later testified that she smuggled arms into the ghetto in her boots and kept a cache under her bed. During the uprising, women deployed 183:. The report was intended to promote Stroop's efficiency as a commander and excuse his failure to clear the ghetto quickly. The report memorialized the supposed heroism of the SS men who participated in the suppression of the uprising, especially the sixteen who were killed by Jewish fighters. For comparison, more than 7,000 Jews were shot during the uprising, the vast majority noncombatants. 316: 1158: 305:
Agile as acrobats, shooting with a pistol in each hand ... dangerous in hand-to-hand contact ... when a woman like this was caught, she appeared scared as a rabbit, thoroughly despairing, and suddenly, when a group of our men was nearby, she pulled out a grenade hidden in her skirt or in her pants
282:. Zdrojewicz survived, but Rachela Wyszogrodzka did not. Zdrojewicz immigrated to Israel in 1946, married (changing her name to Horenstein), and had four children. Due to her injuries she was considered 75% disabled by the Israeli authorities. Horenstein's testimony was published by 265:
As the uprising was crushed, Zdrojewicz and some other resistance members hid in an underground bunker with stockpiled weapons, but they were found and forced out by SS men. According to Zdrojewicz, the Germans lined the Jews up against the wall and shot some of them, including
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on white armbands, and the combatants discarded their armbands because they considered them humiliating symbols of Nazi oppression. Because of the lack of historical accuracy, some people objected to the cover. The cover was reissued without the Star of David badges.
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and threw it at them with a string of curses on her lips ... In these instances we suffered losses, so that I ordered that these women not be held nor allowed to approach, but to finish them off with submachine guns.
914: 545: 218:". Instead of being killed or murdered, Jews were "destroyed". Three copies of the report were made, for Himmler, Krüger, and Stroop. One copy of the Stroop Report is held by the 134:, dragged out for four weeks. The Germans had to set the ghetto on fire, pump poison gas into bunkers, and blast the Jews out of their positions in order to march them to the 365: 330:
cover for a Polish stamp commemorating the seventieth anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The original cover was controversial, since the graphic designer added
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The photograph is known as a famous representation of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. The photograph was used for the
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entered the ghetto with tanks in order to liquidate the ghetto. They expected to quickly defeat the poorly armed Jewish insurgents, but instead the
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staged armed resistance. Jews began to dig bunkers and smuggle weapons into the ghetto. On 19 April 1943, about 2,000 soldiers under the command of
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and Treblinka. The hopeless act of defiance became "one of the most significant occurrences in the history of the Jewish people", according to the
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took photographs to document the events. Selected photographs and communiqués were compiled, along with a summary of German actions, as the
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During the suppression of the uprising, Stroop sent daily communiqués to Higher SS and Police Leader
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to the left lapels of the women. In fact, Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were forced to wear blue
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The only woman in the photograph who survived was the one at right,
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later described the bravery of the Jewish women who took up arms:
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The photograph appeared on the cover of a 1948 book about the
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From right: Małka Zdrojewicz, Bluma and Rachela Wyszogrodzka
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Es gibt keinen jüdischen Wohnbezirk in Warschau mehr!
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Index

Małka Zdrojewicz

Holocaust photograph
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
SS
Umschlagplatz
Majdanek concentration camp
Jürgen Stroop
his official report
Jewish resistance to the Holocaust
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Stroop Report
Warsaw Ghetto
deported
Treblinka extermination camp
Jewish Combat Organization
SS and Police Leader
Jürgen Stroop
Warsaw Ghetto uprising
Jewish resistance against the Holocaust
Umschlagplatz
Majdanek
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger
Kraków
Propaganda Company 689
Franz Konrad
Stroop Report
Heinrich Himmler

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