Eyewitness Accounts From the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Eyewitness Accounts From the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

They are often blurry and hastily taken, but despite their imperfections, they have enormous historical value. They were taken at the risk of death and are the only photos that were not taken during the ghetto uprising by the Germans. "At first, we don't really know what we are looking at. Only when we know the history do we realize what is hidden behind the image," explains Zuzanna Schnepf-Kołacz, an expert in researching the fate of Jews durin…

By Sinuhé. The encyclopedia on the Holocaust states that the word Guetto comes from the name of the Jewish quarter of Venice established in 1516. During World War II the ghettos were urban districts “in which the Germans forced the Jewish population to live in miserable conditions.” The ghettos isolated the Jews, separating them [...] The Paradoxes of History: From the Warsaw Guetto to Gaza. aparece primero en La Jornada de Oriente.