Following the Nazi Blitzkrieg invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, Warsaw suffered heavy

air attacks in artillery bombardment and 1.5 million German troops entered Poland,

many of them making it quickly to the Polish capital city. Within weeks, German civilian occupation

authorities required Warsaw's Jewish population to identify themselves by wearing white

arm bands with a blue star of David. The German authorities closed Jewish schools, confiscated Jewish

own property and conscripted Jewish men into forced labor and dissolved pre-war Jewish organizations.

In October 12, 1940, the Germans decreed the establishment of a ghetto in Warsaw. The decree

required all Jewish residents of Warsaw to move into a designated area which German authorities

sealed off from the rest of the city in November, and life quickly became hell for those inside.

The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire,

closely guarded to prevent movement between the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw.

The population of the ghetto increased by Jews compelled to relocate to the ghetto from nearby

towns was estimated to be over 400,000 Jews. German authorities forced ghetto residents to live

in an area of 1.3 square miles with an average of 7.2 people per room, and then in the summer of 1942

life got even worse. Ghetto residents began to be taken out of the ghetto in mass and transported to

Treblinka, a death camp. Shortly after that those who remained fought back and staged the largest

Jewish uprising against the Nazis in the Nazi-occupied territories during World War II.

They didn't beat the Nazis, but they inspired others to fight, and some even survived to tell their

tales, and we share some of those tales today. We also go over the history of anti-Semitism in Europe

that led to a history of ghettos, and how all of that led to the Nazi ideological justification

of so much evil, evil shit that they did to the Jewish people in World War II.

A lot of learning ahead on an important, how can we meet Saks treat one another?

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