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The
resistance of the Jews at the time of the final liquidation of
the Warsaw ghetto was not, as some of the Underground press
reported, collective resistance indicating a certain change in
the attitude of the remaining Jews. If the great majority of
the Jews of Europe remained entirely passive when they were
killed, so the remnant, in their racially based materialism,
have remained without any motivation to resist. Only a tiny
fraction of some tens of thousands of Jews remaining in
Warsaw, about 10 percent, joined the struggle under Communist
influence. The Jews who resisted were not those registered in
the ghetto, they were the "wild" residents of the
ghetto. As against this, the registered Jews, those who report
for work, took no part in the operation and surrendered to the
Germans in great numbers, and were taken by them according to
the old system to the new slaughter center at Majdanek.
The
resistance and the supply of arms to a population of tens of
thousands in the ghetto was organized and carried out by the
Bund and the Communists. These were elements that showed the
most hostile attitudes towards the Poles during the period of
the occupation, and they prepared themselves within the
framework of Communist organizations for a blood-bath directed
against the Poles during the crucial transitional period.
According
to the Communist plan, the ghetto was to have been used as a
spur for an uprising at too early a time, which the PPR** is
seeking to bring about. There were Communist printing presses
for a long time in the ghetto, there were arms depots and
Communist staff groups, and from there Soviet officers
directed diversionary actions.
In
view of this fact, we may evaluate the Jewish resistance as a
positive element, for it caused the premature liquidation of
one of the armed positions of the Communists....
Yad
Vashem Archives, O-25/1.
*
From the Bulletin of the AK intelligence group, Ajencja A,
May 15, 1943.
**
PPR Polska Partia Robotnicza Polish Workers Party
(Communist Party). |
