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...A
week ago the second stage began in the brutal annihilation of
the Polish Jews. The Germans set about expelling the 40,000
Jews who still remained in Warsaw. The ghetto replied with
armed struggle. The Jewish Fighting Organization opened a war
of the weak against the strong. With scant forces, few arms
and little ammunition, without water, blinded by smoke and
fire, the Jewish fighters defended streets and individual
houses. In the dusk they withdrew step by step, more because
of the fire that had taken hold in the close-built houses than
because of the enemy who was equipped with modern military
arms. They considered it a victory if a part of those
imprisoned in the ghetto were able to escape; it was a victory
in their eyes to die while their hands still grasped arms....
Yad
Vashem Archives, O-25/25.
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From the Underground AK newspaper Biuletyn Informacyjny
("Information Bulletin"), No. 17, April 29, 1943. |
