Resistance

Starred review from April 4, 1994
The Warsaw Ghetto uprising of 1943, following Hitler's orders to annihilate the Jewish population of Poland's capital, pitted hundreds of poorly armed, starving Jews fighting to the death, in total isolation, against an overwhelming Nazi army. This superb, moving, richly informative history of the uprising, which was led by an underground resistance group, should erase the stereotype of the passive Jewish victim. Himself a survivor of the battle, Gutman ( The Jews of Warsaw ), a history professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, uses contemporaneous diaries, letters, underground press articles, survivors' accounts, poems and Nazi documents to create a vivid picture of daily life in the ghetto, and of temporary alliances forged among Jewish fighting factions torn by ideological rifts. He also illuminates contacts between Jewish partisans and the Polish underground and fills in the cultural background by delineating Warsaw's vibrant pre-war Jewish community. Photos.

edmodo-wzjpfyq5dn - The book was another great book by George Orwell. Orwell presents a place where the government is dictatorial and watches over every little thing you do and wants to control everything each citizen does. Two people in love despise the government and join a group, the Brotherhood against the government trusting in who they thought was a part of the brotherhood they are sent to admit to their crimes. The man is faced with his fear of rats and is placed with them but finally he cant take it and tells the government to give the rats to "his love". In the end he comes out as someone who appreciates the government and has no feelings for his former love.