Here were people with courage to make you weep. Unarmed, except for bricks and bottles and a few sparse firearms against a brutal well-trained oppressor. The result was what you would expect, but these were people who refused to die like cattle, refused to go placidly into the camps and preferred to die as viciously as humans can. And the Soviets stood by and let it happen. I am, more or less, a Catholic, but to these Jews: Slainte, and may you be half an hour in Heaven before the Devil knows you're dead.

a very brave thing to do indeed. it showed that the jewish people are willing to fight for thier freedom. men and women of all ages fought against all the odds. the jews had no weapons, no nothing compared to the germans who were well armed. the soveits could help if they wanted, but they didn't, because soveits also hated jews. Here in israel we have a memorial day for all the men and women who died in the holocost. each year we light memorial candles and whatch a movie about how the jews struggled and how they fought in warsaw for thier freedom.

Very heroic indeed. They went down fighting, and it is impossible not to admire these brave souls who knew that things were hopeless but decided to make a stand anyway. I think they were expecting the Soviets to come to their aid once the uprising began, but the Russians were content to sit across the river and let them go to their deaths. I don't know, because I wasn't there, but it's a shame that more opressed Jews and Gypsies and POW's and such didn't rise up against the NAZI's. Sure they would have been killed, but that would have happened anyway, and it would have been a major irritation for the Germans. But again, I can't say what I would have done under those circumstances because I have never experienced anything like it.