UPRISING IN THE
WARSAW GHETTO

In the historiography of World War II, much space is devoted to the armed fight and different manifestations of resistance against the occupiers. At the same time, the scale of the resistance, the diversity and the heroism of the undertaken actions are emphasised. What contradicts that description to some extent, is paying attention to the alleged passivity of the Jewish population and their lack of will to fight. A careful study of the occupation and post-war memoirs allows to look at that part of the occupation from a slightly different perspective and to understand, in a better way, the mechanisms that guided the behaviour of Jews confined to ghettos and camps. Having analysed those reports, one can realise why and what decisions they made and also that their resistance was not only a fight with weapon in their hands.