Data Bases • Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism? Links • Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com Free Essays • Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers	Search Lots of Essays Back to Subjects - Psychology Museum of Tolerance Museum of Tolerance Anonymous Museum 1 The Museum of Tolerance focuses on two central themes: The history of racism and prejudice in the American experience and the Holocaust- man’s inhumanity to man. The issues of human rights, racism, and responsibility are discussed. The responsibility of each individual person is to speak up in opposition of extermination of another race and stop another Holocaust. World War II and Hitler, the German leader was intent on conquests and war, but he needed a scapegoat to blame and the Jews were headed for genocide. What I found most interesting about a something so terrible was the Resistance Movement and specifically – The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. I went to the museum with a date, but when we came out, all I could say was "what do you say?" He was Jewish and wanted to go to the museum for a long time and the excuse he always told himself was, "I will one day." He was glad he I had an assignment because he thought the experience was one long overdue. Between 1941 and 1943 the underground resistance movement formed about 100 Jewish groups. The most famous attempt to resist the Germans in armed fighting occurred in the Warsaw ghetto. In the summer of 1942, about 300,000 Jews were deported to Treblinka death camp (established in 1942) west of Lublin. Exterminations began in July 1942 with the arrivals of the Warsaw ghetto (Gutman,1994). The deportation of July-September 1942 reduced the ghetto population from 400,00 to between 50,000 to 60,000 people. When the reports of mass murder in the death camps leaked back to the Warsaw ghetto, a surviving group of young people formed the Z.O.B. (Polish name – Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa), which translates to (Jewish Fighting Organization). The leader was 23 year old Mordecai Anielewicz, who issued a proclamation to the Jews to resist going into the railroad cars. On Monday January 18, 1943, the first shot was fired by Aireh Wilner when the pursuers penetrated a dwelling of members of the Jewish Fighting Organization the vicinity of the OBW on Mila Street. Ghetto fighters fired upon German troops as they tried to round up another group of ghetto inhabitants for deportation. These fighters used a small supply of weapons that were smuggled into the ghetto. After four days, the troops retreated. This small victory was the inspiration to prepare for future resistance. On April 19, 1943, the eve of Passover, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighter’s fought the Germans. The ghetto fighters were able to hold out a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended. The Germans slowly crushed the resistance. Of the more than 56,065 Jews captured, about 7,000 were shot and the remainder deported to the concentration camps. Any Holocaust experience demonstrates the fragility of the values of civilization. Any person can choose evil, to perpetrate a Holocaust and any person can decide to follow a leader like sheep, but each of us has the freedom to be civilized and take the responsibility for that freedom. There were many plaques that told stories of selfishness. Many ordinary people, most non-Jewish that could not bear to see innocent people suffer and risked being tortured or shot to save as many lives as possible. Bibliography: Museum 4 Bibliography Gutman, Isreal. Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994 Word Count: 569
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