Items 1 through 1 of 2. Jews from the Warsaw ghetto are marched through the ghetto during deportation. Warsaw, Poland, โ Deportation of Jews from the Warsaw ghetto. Jews from the ghetto board a deportation train with the assistance of Jewish police. Warsaw, Poland, Juergen Stroop third from left , SS commander who crushed the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, between April 19 and May 16, German soldiers capture Jews hiding in a bunker during the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Warsaw, Poland, AprilโMay Vladka belonged to the Zukunft youth movement of the Bund the Jewish Socialist party.
In December , she was smuggled out to the Aryan, Polish side of Warsaw to try to obtain arms and to find hiding places for children and adults. She became an active courier for the Jewish underground and for Jews in camps, forests, and other ghettos. Ben was one of four children born to a religious Jewish family.
Germany invaded Poland on September 1, However, he soon decided to return to his family, then in the Warsaw ghetto. Ben was assigned to a work detail outside the ghetto, and helped smuggle people out of the ghettoโincluding Vladka Fagele Peltel, a member of the Jewish Fighting Organization ZOB , who later became his wife.
Later, he went into hiding outside the ghetto and posed as a non-Jewish Pole. During the Warsaw ghetto uprising in , Ben worked with other members of the underground to rescue ghetto fighters, bringing them out through the sewers and hiding them on the "Aryan" side of Warsaw. From the "Aryan" side of Warsaw, Ben witnessed the burning of the Warsaw ghetto during the uprising. After the uprising, Ben escaped from Warsaw by posing as a non-Jew.
