People's Uprising and the Fall of the Warsaw Ghetto, April 1942–June 1943

Havi Ben-Sasson Dreifuss is professor of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University, where she heads the Institute for the History of Polish Jewry and Israel-Poland Relations. She also serves as the director of the Center for Research on the Holocaust in Poland at Yad Vashem. She is the author of Relations Between Jews and Poles: The Jewish Perspective.

“A brilliantly researched book that draws on recorded statements of the combatants and, for the first time, gives full weight to personal testimonies of Warsaw ghetto inhabitants. A very important contribution to scholarly literature.”

• Preface to the English editionIntroductionChapter OneThe Twilight Days: April 18–July 21, 1942The Warsaw Ghetto prior to April 1942Economic Conditions and the Struggle for a LivelihoodJewish Society and Its Various CirclesThe Jewish Street and Ghetto HousingApril–July 1942: A Reign of Terror in the Streets and Houses in the GhettoA Chronicle of Edicts and PersecutionsThe Rumor Mill and FearsChapter TwoThe Great Deportation: July 22–September 21, 1942(Eve of the Fast of the Ninth of Av 5702–Yom Kippur 5703) The Beginning The Destruction of the Public and Private Spaces in the Ghetto: “[Your] Streets Have Died”Late July to Mid-August 1942: Workshop ManiaMid-August to September 6, 1942Families and Women during the Deportation Where to? “I Am in Treblinka”The Umschlagplatz during the Great Deportation September 1942: The “Cauldron Roundup” and the Conclusion of the Great Deportation Chapter ThreeAn Abandoned, Beaten Remnant in a Painful Awakening: Mid-September 1942–Mid-January 1943Life amidst the Ruins of the PastA New Social Stratification“Let Us Eat and Drink for Tomorrow We Die”Abnormal RoutineChapter Four The Second Deportation, the January Uprising, and Their Ramifications—Between Hope and the Awareness of Loss: January 18 to Mid-April 1943The Future of the Warsaw Ghetto and Its Remnants in the Eyes of the German Authorities: Jewish Labor or Extermination of the JewsThe Second AktionIn the Absence of a Future: Work, Hiding in the Ghetto, or Escape to the Aryan SideFrom the Warsaw Ghetto to Lublin?Preparations of the Resistance OrganizationsChapter FiveThe Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Passover Eve 5703, April 19 to June 1943The First Day of the Uprising: April 19, 1943The Second Day of the Uprising: April 20, 1943The Third Day of the Uprising: April 21, 1943The Fourth Day of the Uprising: April 22, 1943—What Remained of the Fighting Afterward?In the Apartments and BunkersThe FiresThe End of the Uprising and Its Final Suppression: The Exit from the Ghetto and the BunkersThe UmschlagplatzAmong the Ruins“There is no longer a Jewish Residential Quarter in Warsaw!”Summary and ConclusionsBibliographyIndex