The Warsaw Ghetto
Background information. In this report to his
superiors, a Nazi SS officer describes what occurred
when he attempted to oversee the evacuation of the
Warsaw ghetto in 1943
Which statement below is supported by information in
the text?
The execution of this transfer order [to move the Jews in
the ghetto to concentration camps) proved to be very
difficult, since the managersas well as the Jews resisted
in every possible way. ... The conditions discovered there
are indescribable. I cannot imagine a greater chaos than
in the Ghetto of Warsaw. The Jews had control of
everything, from the chemical substances used in
manufacturing explosives to clothing and equipment for
the Armed Forces. The managers knew so little of their
own shops that the Jews were in a position to produce
inside these shops arms of every kind, especially hand
grenades, Molotov cocktails, and the like. Moreover, the
Jews had succeeded in fortifying some of these factories
as centers of resistance.
O Every Jewish person eventually was sent to a
concentration camp.
O Some Jews fought against the Nazis rather than
being sent to concentration camps.
O Jewish resistors in the Warsaw ghetto were unable
to create weapons.
O The Nazis were able to easily transfer all Jews from
the Warsaw ghetto to the camps.