0:00 Intro
5:02 Creation of the Warsaw Ghetto
9:12 Invasion of the Soviet Union and Beginning of the Holocaust
11:02 Great Deportation Action
13:17 Jewish Combat Organization/ Jewish Resistance
18:10 Planning Bunkers
22:30 Germans Attack
23:55 19 April 1943, the Uprising Begins
25:00 Fire
30:46 The view from outside
32:52 Attitude of Polish people
35:21 Captured
38:58 Ruins of the Ghetto
42:34 Commemorating Uprising
44:45 Q+A
The 80th anniversary of the beginning of the momentous Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is on April 19th this year. In this talk, Dr. Zachary Mazur reflected on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising as a powerful example of Jewish resistance and action in the face of Nazi oppression during the Holocaust. Mazur’s presentation draws upon never-before-seen sources and images that were discovered in the process of preparing the POLIN Museum’s temporary exhibition Around Us a Sea of Fire, which addresses the civilian experience in bunkers and hideouts during the Uprising.
Zachary Mazur earned his PhD at Yale University and is currently a Senior Historian at the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. His research interests are in 20th century East Central Europe, national identity, law, and economics.
