By the spring of 1943, the ghettoized Jewish population was less
than a tenth of its size before the Nazi occupation, and 1500
fighters finally prepared for battle. One group, the ZOB, was
composed of leftists and left-wing Zionists, while the more
conservative ZZW had ties, including weapons supply lines, to the
Polish Home Army. Events are reconstructed through the eyes of
participants (Kurzman conducted 500 interviews and reproduces
conversational detail extensively). The closeups include not only
Jewish leaders but the commander of the Nazi butchers, SS General
Jurgen Stroop, and Walther Tobbens, a German industrialist who
hated to see his slave-labor supply disappear, as well as Polish
Home Army captain Iwanski, who gave crucial help to the Jews. The
book focuses so closely on the day-to-day, bunker-by-bunker
sequence of the four-week uprising, however, that the shape of
events remains rather elusive. The War Against the Jews (1975) by
Lucy Dawidowicz and the extensively documented Uprising in the
Warsaw Ghetto (1975) by Ber Mark both stressed political and
sociological cleavages within the ghetto struggle. By contrast, the
fight is seen here as purgative violence, "the beginning of an iron
militancy rooted in the will to survive" which "symbolically ended
2000 years of submission" and bridged the way to the creation of
the State of Israel. Within this controversial framework, the
bravery of the insurgents and the horror of the extermination are
commemorated in existential detail. (Kirkus Reviews)
In October 1940 Nazis forced all the Jews in the Polish city of
Warsaw to live in the cramped squalor of a small ghetto. Despite
the starvation and disease that claimed 50,000 lives per year, the
Jews were not dying swiftly enough to suit Heinrich Himmler, who
ordered in 1942 that the Warsaw Ghetto be dismantled and the
450,000 inhabitants be deported to the gas chambers at Treblinka.
On April 19, 1943, the first day of Passover, two thousand German
troops, singing confidently, marched into the ghetto to round up
the remnant of remaining Jews. Suddenly, a fifteen-year-old girl
tossed a grenade in their midst. Within minutes the German army had
been routed. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising had begin.This is the first
full-scale, step-by-step account of the climatic twenty-eight-day
struggle of the poorly armed Jews against their Nazi exterminators.
The Bravest Battle took more than two years to write and involved
interviewing more than 500 people, including most of the surviving
fighters. This moving history cannot be matched for its
authenticity and drama. The Bravest Battle is a testament to the
Warsaw Jews, who fought for survival with dignity and courage.
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