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Marek Edelman - The uprising in the ghetto (99/145)

To listen to more of Marek Edelman’s stories, go to the playlist:    • Marek Edelman - Recollecting my parents (1...   Marek Edelman (1919-2009) was the last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He had remained in Poland following the Nazi defeat and was active in domestic and international politics while at the same time becoming one of Poland’s leading cardiologists. [Listeners: Anka Grupinska, Joanna Klara Agnieszka Zuchowska, Joanna Szczesna; date recorded: 2003] TRANSCRIPT: This didn't last long. I don't know, Stroop writes that 16 people died there. I don't know, we don't know, in any case ambulances began to appear, they hid and retreated from the ghetto. That was probably seven o'clock in the morning or eight or 7:30. And von Sammern, who was also a general leading this, they all withdrew and at 10 o'clock, Stroop took over command. He took more care, he arrived in a vehicle, today it's called something, an open-topped car manufactured for the army by Volkswagen. The troops came in single file, moving differently the way a person moves when they're under fire, jumping across the streets, the roads. And this went on, these bigger battles in the central part of the ghetto, the smaller ones went on until six or seven o'clock in the morning. We built barricades, that's what we called them, barricades made from beds, straw mattresses, it was set alight. On Nalewki Street they made a barricade out of two beds. But the Germans were really surprised that there was any kind of organised resistance because they thought that they'd come in, fire a few shots and that everyone would run away. Whereas here the whole day went by, it was already six o'clock. Tanks were sent in, three small ones or medium sized ones, not panzers but smaller ones, one was set alight with a petrol bomb. It didn't catch fire but a tank caught fire so those two retreated and one went to Muranowski Square where there was this ZWZ group - what was it called? Apparently, there was a 2-3-hour shoot out there which nobody saw but they talked about it themselves. Once those boys had used up all of their ammunition, they legged it and came out on the other side where they'd made a tunnel on Barokowa Street. That evening, the Germans captured them and shot practically every one of them - a few people got away to Michalino. That was the first day.