On this day in 1943, the largest Jewish revolt during WWII began when Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto attacked Nazis attempting to deport them to death camps. Nazis razed the entire ghetto block by block, killing more than 7,000 and deporting 42,000.
The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe, housing approximately 400,000 Jews in 1940. In 1942, Nazi police and military carried out mass deportations, in total around 265,000 Jews, from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka killing center. By early 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto's population was down to 70,000 - 80,000.
In 1942, it was abundantly clear to the residents of the Warsaw Ghetto that deportation was a death sentence. Two armed resistance groups were formed that year - the left-wing Jewish Combat Organization (Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ŻOB) and the Zionist Jewish Military Union (Żydowski Związek Wojskowy; ŻZW).
On April 19th, 1943, the eve of Passover, Nazis attempted another mass deportation. ŻOB had received advance notice, however, and 700 young Jewish fighters met the Nazi police with resistance.
The rebels lacked formal military training and were poorly equipped, but had the advantage of waging a guerilla war, retreating to the safety of ghetto buildings and tunnels after attacking. Non-armed residents also resisted by refusing to cooperate with police by refusing to assemble at collection points.
In response, the Nazi forces, armed with artillery and tanks, began razing the ghetto block by block. According to Benjamin Meed, a Jew hiding in the "Aryan" part of Warsaw at the time, the entire sky was red from the ghetto's destruction.
Resistance lasted for approximately a month. On May 8th, 1943, German forces succeeded in seizing ŻOB headquarters, and many of the group's commanders are thought to have committed suicide to avoid capture.
Approximately 7,000 Jews while fighting or hiding during the uprising. Police deported approximately 42,000 survivors who were captured during the revolt, most of whom were shot to death in the Nazi "Operation Harvest Festival" (Erntefest). Many Jews (one estimate suggests 20,000) evaded capture and continued to hide in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Resisters knew that the uprising was likely doomed, but chose to fight anyway. Marek Edelman, the only surviving ŻOB commander, stated that the inspiration to fight back was "not to allow the Germans alone to pick the time and place of our deaths".
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Okay so purely for the sake of argument, would the general megathread say it's weird if an employer terminates a salaried employee immediately, but also asks for their signature on a form which grants them several weeks of insurance and five figures of a lump sum, with an allegedly legally-binding agreement that does not expire that the employee never speak ill, true or false, of the company or anyone currently or formerly employed there?
Purely for the sake of argument
theoretically.
Was severance or anything about an nda in your contract?
No lmao, not at all. Totally left field.
The rub is that this person had worsening health and stamina due to chronic pain that doctors have been unable to even diagnose for almost five years now, which they have communicated with management and bosses about. There was never any formal accomodation made, everyone just said "ah do what you can yknow" and they did, and that was going fine. On the weird little sheet it says they were like, hiding in the break room for multiple hours at a time, which generally I know they were taking 10-20min breaks so as to not exhaust themself and basically die. They don't work like a government job either, it's normal blue collar for a regular (big) company.
I think this is a reference to
and one of his former employees who is suing him. The agreement went a bit beyond an NDA (basically the person could not say anything negative about crowder indefinitely), which does violate labor law.
The internet is an amazing place, but no this is not a reference lmao.
Oh, in that case hypothetically I'd DM Matt Bruenig on twitter. His wife sucks, but he deals with these types of cases and may be able to point you in the right direction.
Huh, twitter guy... ty for the pointer.
Umm depends on the circumstances
See here
Then no, they're trying to cover for a lawsuit. Consult a labor lawyer.