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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising / Der Warschauer Ghettoaufstand

Innocent people forced
Into an inhumane Ghetto
While being Jewish

Admiration for the fighters
In the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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Unschuldige Menschen 
Gezwungen in ein unmenschliches Ghetto
Nur weil sie Juden waren

Hochachtung für die Kämpfer
Im Warschauer Ghettoaufstand

Copyright © Gert W. Knop | Year Posted 2010

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David Byrne Date: 5/9/2010 7:24:00 PM applause! Login to Reply

Doris Culverhouse Date: 5/9/2010 4:37:00 PM Thanks for the answer, I don't like to see the pictures of the people who were tortured, it is too sad. Login to Reply

Sara Kendrick Date: 5/9/2010 4:12:00 PM Gert, great write as a reminder of what happened...Keep the creative pen flowing...Thanks for stopping by and reading my work..Hope that it was a nice day in your neck of the woods ...lovely here today...Sara Login to Reply

Poet Destroyer A Date: 5/9/2010 5:21:00 AM Good morning GERT! may be only where i am at.// It is early and I am fresh on the thoughts. Well done and written, but as you said an uprising for the Jewish forced to live ghetto. Has been a process being lifted from many who have fought back, during the time lots of innocent lives where lost do to others belief men created, to hate their own. Well done Gert, many can wonder with lots of subjects related to this Tanka you have for us today, enjoyed,..p.d Login to Reply

Doris Culverhouse Date: 5/8/2010 5:48:00 PM is this from the concentration camps? Login to Reply

Andrea Dietrich Date: 5/8/2010 5:02:00 PM The Ghetto was the first step toward the camps. I love hearing the stories of those rescued from those places. I don't know much about the Uprising. WAs it one specific event? Luv, andrea Login to Reply

Caroline Cécile Delacroix Date: 5/8/2010 4:12:00 PM Indeed. A very unpleasant part of history that put shame on the human factor. Actually it is worse than animals really what happened to them and what is still happening in part of the world today. Good tanka, Gert and thank you for your kind wishes. I needed that, for I went through a little troubled time, but I will be ok. I always bounce back. Have a nice one too, Caroline. Login to Reply

Carolyn Devonshire Date: 5/8/2010 4:09:00 PM Sad statement in this great tanka, Gert. My mother's family was from Poland, near the outskirts of Warsaw. You paint a clear image of what it must have been like to witness the uprising. And, again, I feel like I'm learning German from you. Many thanks! Love, Carolyn Login to Reply