The Jewish Ghetto

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This paper discusses and analyzes the topic of Jewish history by reviewing various literary sources. The paper focuses primarily on what these selections can teach us about the Jewish experience in the ghetto and each authors' understanding of what was happening. The paper discusses how nothing can quite prepare the reader for the impact of these wartime diaries smuggled out of the European Jewish ghettos. The agony is real and the suffering seems endless for these persecuted peoples.

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"The most interesting aspect of this seeming world indifference is the reaction by Randolph Churchill, who did hope to arm the Jews and aid in their escape. However, the program was doomed from the beginning, when the number of parachutists recruited to parachute into Europe and organize resistance dropped from 100 or more to only thirty-two, which was not enough to escape and make a difference. All but one were caught and shot. About 2 to 3,000 Jews did manage to escape as a result of the attempt, but this was the epitome of Jewish resistance, and it certainly was not much to look back on (Sachar 553-554). "

Sample of Sources Used:

• Kaplan, Chaim A. "A Warsaw Ghetto Diary." The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History. Paul Mendes-Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz, editors. Oxford, 1995. 666-668.
• Sachar, Howard. A History of the Jews in the Modern World. New York: Knopf, 2005. 551-571.

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