The People's Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942–June 1943

Havi Ben-Sasson Dreifuss

• Publisher: Brandeis University Press
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781684583065
  9781684583140
• eBook ISBN:
  9781684583072
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

Examines the final years of the Warsaw ghetto, the uprising, and the varied, nuanced ways Jewish people resisted Nazi rule.
 
The People's Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942–June 1943 sheds light on the lives, choices, and experiences of the tens of thousands of Jews who were not part of the underground armed resistance but nonetheless supported the famed Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This riveting and dramatic account focuses on the final year of the Warsaw ghetto, from the Great Deportation in the summer of 1942 through the suppression of the uprising in mid-1943. Drawing on powerful contemporary testimonies, diaries, and documents—many of them previously unexplored—Havi Ben-Sasson Dreifuss
reveals how members of the broader Jewish population struggled to survive, maintain family and community life, and make impossible moral decisions in the face of fear, hunger, and daily violence. Looking beyond the fighters themselves, the book offers a story of devastation, but also of resilience and human dignity.
 
Published in association with Yad Vashem.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1. The Twilight Days: April 18 to July 21, 1942
• 2. The Great Deportation: July 22 to September 21, 1942 (Eve of the Fast of the Ninth of Av 5702 to Yom Kippur 5703)
• 3. An Abandoned, Beaten Remnant in a Painful Awakening: Mid-September 1942 to Mid-January 1943
• 4. The Second Deportation, the January Uprising, and Their Ramifications: Between Hope and the Awareness of Loss (January 18 to Mid-April 1943)
• 5. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: April 19 to June 1943 (Passover Eve 5703)
• Summary and Conclusions
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index