Warsaw Ghetto uprising in the context of Jewish Combat Organization

Warsaw Ghetto uprising in the context of Jewish Combat Organization

⭐ Core Definition: Warsaw Ghetto uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps.

After the Grossaktion Warsaw of summer 1942, in which more than a quarter of a million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered, the remaining Jews began to build bunkers and smuggle weapons and explosives into the ghetto. The left-wing Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) and right-wing Jewish Military Union (ŻZW) formed and began to train. A small resistance effort to another roundup in January 1943 was partially successful and spurred Polish resistance groups to support the Jews in earnest.

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Warsaw Ghetto uprising in the context of Dehumanization

Dehumanization is the process, practice, or act of denying full humanity in others, along with the cruelty and suffering that accompany it. It involves perceiving individuals or groups as lacking essential human qualities, such as secondary emotions and mental capacities, thereby placing them outside the bounds of moral concern. In this definition, any act or thought that regards a person as either "other than" and "less than" human constitutes dehumanization.

Dehumanization can be overt or subtle, and typically manifests in two primary forms: animalistic dehumanization, which denies uniquely human traits like civility, culture, or rationality and likens others to animals; and mechanistic dehumanization, which denies traits of human nature such as warmth, emotion, and individuality, portraying others as objects or machines.

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← Dehumanization ← Dehumanisation
LINKS TO (CHILDREN)
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust → Warsaw Ghetto → Occupation of Poland (1939–1945) → World War II → Nazi Germany → Gas chamber → Majdanek concentration camp → Treblinka extermination camp → Extermination camp → Grossaktion Warsaw → Jewish Combat Organization → Jewish Military Union →