One of The Biggest Uprisings in The Holocaust

            The Warsaw ghetto was one of the biggest and most terrible uprisings in the Holocaust. This situation happened in the 1940’s in Poland; SS and police units deported 260,000 of the Jews to the Treblinka killing center and they sent over 11,500 Jews to forced labor camps. Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, they deported and murdered around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. Many teenagers and young adults were tortured and were forced to work. Jurgen Stroop was one of Hitler’s partners and he was responsible for the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto. He was born in Germany in 1885. In 1943 Jurgen Stroop became the SS and political leader of Greece. After the war Stroop was arrested and was executed at Warsaw on September 8^th, 1951. 

Falling to The Ground

          My name is Alex Goldstein. I am twenty-six years old and I was taken to the Treblinka killing center. They barely gave us any food and many people were whipped and beaten, including me. On a cloudy and dark morning we had to wake up and work. People that wouldn’t get up either got beaten if they were lucky, or got shot. When I woke up I was forced to go directly to work. As I was going to work I tripped over a rock on the ground and scratched my foot, it didn’t hurt a lot. As I was getting up one of the guards saw me lying down and thought that I was on the ground because I was tired. He came up to me, took out is whip and started to beat me with it. “Put your hands over your head and keep your feet straight.” I did exactly what he said, and then he started whipping me in the stomach. Every five whips was like getting shot in the stomach, but when he was on his twelfth whip it stopped hurting because I couldn’t feel it anymore. He stopped at thirty and then walked away with a pissed off look on his face. I had a hard time getting up because I was very light headed. My stomach was bright red and had sixteen scars just because I tripped. 

Davids Father Dies in Front of His Eyes

            My name is David Shwartz, I was 17 years old when they took my father and I to the Treblinka killing center. When we reached the Treblinka killing center we got out of the train and stood against a wall covered with blood so I started to get really nervous. They said that they want strong and healthy men.13 other people, my dad, and I got chosen and forced to work, the 7 other men were either to old or weak so they were murdered. As we started our forced labor I started crying, luckily my dad gets to work next to me so he comforted me by saying “it’s okay son, at least we’re together.” It was about 1 and a half months being in the camp and I had noticed that my dad was terribly sick, I told him to go to the hospital but he responded by saying “going to the hospital is like asking to die.” I didn’t understand at that moment but it came to me when I kept on working. A Weak later I spotted my dad sleeping while he was working, I quickly took a glance around to check if none of the guards found him taking a nap. I ran at him as fast as I could, “Dad, wake up! They mite notice you sleeping!” But as soon as I finished saying that, the guard was running strait at us. When he reached us he started screaming, “Wake up you lazy Jew!” I was trying to explain that my dad was terribly sick, but he pushed me onto the ground. A second later he grabbed my dad, took out his gun and shot. I sat there shocked and terrified. “Get back to work!” said the guard. I got up and started working. As soon as he left I went crawling to my dad, I turned his body over to see his face and it was covered in blood and dirt. When I stared at his face it was like somebody stuck a knife through my heart.