RASCOALA DIN GHETTO-UL VARSOVIEI 1945 - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, by B. Mark, CARTEA RUSA - April 1945, First edition. A rare publication that reveals for the first time the underground organization in Warsaw even before the outbreak of the uprising, and the scenarios of the uprising itself. Romanian. The illustration on the cover of a warrior holding a rifle in his hand against the backdrop of burning Warsaw was made by Perahim.
"On April 20, 1943, Warsaw was shaken by an event that never happened before..." - a description of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as provided by eyewitnesses and the participants of the uprising themselves, as well as according to secret documents of the secret movement in occupied Poland - from the first ever publications about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The author surveys the Warsaw Ghetto from its establishment through various tricks by the Nazis against the heads of the Jewish community, who tried to persuade them to voluntarily sign a document requiring the Jews to concentrate inside the ghetto gates, and to restrict the steps taken by the Jews that the Nazis began in the ghetto, when the community leaders refused to sign such documents. After a brief description of the terrible life in the ghetto, the horrific famine and the deportations to the camps, the author reveals for the first time the modes of underground organization that had been active in the ghetto since its inception. In much of the book, he describes how the Jews joined Polish underground organizations in order to organize a Jewish fighting force within the ghetto, long before the outbreak of the uprising itself. The underground dug an underground communications line, created improvised weapons, as well as trenches that connected the ghetto with the outside world and smuggled children out of the ghetto gates. He also describes the significant role played by the heroic women Lunia Rosenthal, Nathka Tenenbaum, and Eva Packer in the establishment of the fighting organization in the ghetto. The Polish underground published a secret newspaper called "Einigkeit", which urged the Jewish ghetto inhabitants to organize themselves as an armed group. At the same time, he describes the Nazis' reaction to the underground network. They carried out several massacres in the Warsaw Ghetto in order to weaken the resistance and intimidate the Jews not to think of joining the underground or fleeing.
Among other things, Mark describes an event that took place on January 1, 1943, and was in fact the opening shot of the uprising, in which, during an SS raid in the ghetto, they were shot with live ammunition by Jewish underground fighters standing in the windows near the street. Several soldiers were killed in the same operation, and at the same time they killed several members of the underground. The Germans responded by collectively punishing the ghetto residents and hanging 100 people. The action did not weaken the fighting spirit of the underground organizations, and the revolt broke out in full force. In the second part of the book, he describes in great detail the daily events during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising itself - the reinforcement of the Nazi forces in the face of the fierce spirit of the fighters, the Nazis who were shot and killed by sniper fire by Jewish underground fighters, the angry reaction of the SS commanders, the people who threw themselves to their deaths from the balconies of the houses so as not to be caught by the Nazis, those who managed to escape, and the final destruction of the ghetto carried out by the Nazis in response to the uprising, and more.
86 [2] p. A few stains on the cover. A worn spine. Good condition.
