January 18th.

“..One of our companies held out for 40 minutes and another ..for more than 6 hours. ..mine set in ..brushmakers area exploded. Several of our companies attacked the dispersing Germans. Our losses in manpower are minimal. That is also an achievement. Yechiel fell. He fell a hero ..at ..machine gun. I feel that great things are happening and what we dared do is of great ..enormous importance. Beginning from today we shall shift over to ..partisan tactic. Three battle companies will move out tonight ..with two tasks ..reconnaissance and obtaining arms. Do you remember ..short range weapons are of no use to us. We use such weapons only rarely.  What we need urgently ..grenades ..rifles ..machine guns ..explosives. It is impossible to describe ..conditions under which the Jews of the ghetto are now living. Only a few will be able to hold out. ..remainder will die sooner or later. Their fate is decided. In almost all ..hiding places in which 1,000’s are concealing themselves it is not possible to light a candle for lack of air.  With ..aid of our transmitter we heard ..marvelous report on our fighting by ..Shavit radio station. ..fact that we are remembered beyond ..Ghetto walls encourages us in our struggle. Peace go with you ..my friend. Perhaps we may still meet again. ..dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self defense in ..Ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to ..magnificent ..heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.” Mordechai Anielewicz.

January 18th. 1940 255 Warsaw Jews shot in Palmiry Forest.

January 18th. 1942 A First Theatre performance held in Vilna Ghetto.

January 18th. 1943 Resumption of resettlement of 6,000 of the Warsaw Ghetto’s Jews. They are murdered at Treblinka. As the Warsaw Ghetto was surrounded for the 2nd. Liquidation, the Jewish fight was brought to the Nazi’s at x4 Battle Group Barricades and Jewish Resistance plans to disrupt all future ‘resettlement’ operations. 4,500 Jews were deported. Some 1,200 were Murdered in situ after Resisting. This is the 1st. Jewish Fighting Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto. Resistance lasts for 4 days, till the very day it had proposed for an Uprising. This sees the gathering together of the Jews of Grodno for their final liquidation in Birkenau. It is to be spread over the coming 5 day period.

January 18th. 1944 300 Buczacz Jews murdered.

January 18th. 1945 Auschwitz Camp is being abandoned as the Death March begins in earnest. 66,000 Auschwitz Survivors move toward Wodzislaw. 16,000 Jews did not make it to Wodzislaw. Russian forces liberate Pest part of Budapest. Russian forces take Cracow. More than 47,000 Jews of Cracow were eventually murdered. 17,000 Cracow Jews are missing.

“..impossible to put into words what we have been through. One thing is clear ..what happened exceeded our boldest dreams. ..Germans ran twice from ..Ghetto.”  Mordechai Anielewicz.


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