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Jan 18, 1943:
Germans resume deportations from Warsaw to Treblinka
On this day, the deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto to
the concentration camp at Treblinka is resumed_but not without
much bloodshed and resistance along the way.
On July 18, 1942, Heinrich Himmler promoted Auschwitz camp
commandant Rudolf Hess to SS major. He also ordered that the
Warsaw ghetto, the Jewish quarter constructed by the Nazis upon
the occupation of Poland and enclosed first by barbed wire and
then by brick walls, be depopulated_a "total cleansing," as he
described it. The inhabitants were to be transported to what
became a second extermination camp constructed at the railway
village of Treblinka, 62 miles northeast of Warsaw.
Within the first seven weeks of Himmler's order, more than
250,000 Jews were taken to Treblinka by rail and gassed to death,
marking the largest single act of destruction of any population
group, Jewish or non-Jewish, civilian or military, in the war.
Upon arrival at "T. II," as this second camp at Treblinka was
called, prisoners were separated by sex, stripped, and marched
into what were described as "bathhouses," but were in fact gas
chambers. T. II's first commandant was Dr. Irmfried Eberl, age
32, the man who had headed up the euthanasia program of 1940 and
had much experience with the gassing of victims, especially
children. He was assisted in his duties by several hundred
Ukrainian and about 1,500 Jewish prisoners, who removed gold
teeth from victims before hauling the bodies to mass graves.
In January 1943, after a four-month hiatus, the deportations
started up again. A German SS unit entered the ghetto and began
rounding up its denizens_but they did not go without a fight. Six
hundred Jews were killed in the streets as they struggled with
the Germans. Rebels with smuggled firearms opened fire on the SS
troops. The Germans returned fire_machine-gun fire against the
Jews' pistol shots. Nine Jewish rebels fell_as did several
Germans. The fighting continued for days, with the Jews refusing
to surrender and even taking arms from their Germans persecutors
in surprise attacks.
Amazingly, the Germans withdrew from the ghetto in the face of
the unexpected resistance. They likely did not realize how few
armed resisters there were, but the fact that resistance was
given at all intimidated them. But there was no happy ending.
Before this new incursion into the ghetto was over, 6,000 more
Jews were transported to their likely deaths at Treblinka.
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