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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I was a little cocaine curious tonight after asking my weed dude if he carries any uppers but like damn after asking prices and shit I don't think I wanna get into that. Like I was thinking it'd be nice to have an option for a stimulant if I run out of adderall (or if the adderall I get feels weird w/ no euphoria, thanks for nothing Lannett) hence my asking but like, he said it's like 80 for a gram??? that sounds real fuckin' expensive unless a gram would last me for a bit. But it doesn't sound like it would if it's only like a 1hr high? I really thought it'd last longer than that. I guess it depends on how many doses a gram would yield, though. But like damn lol
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cocaine is really fun (until its not, i.e. until ur you're still up at 6-7am and don't want to be) if you have rich friends you can mooch off of. otherwise not worth it imo. also im tryna not fuck with powders anymore b/c of the fentanyl risk unfortunately
i think he has it in a non powdered form because he said how long a gram would last "depends on how much you crush up and snort" but idk
Don’t start doing coke please. One gram will turn into two.
I've done drugs before mother
Same, son. I’m just trying to warn you that cocaine is a different beast. The high might last an hour but once you get a taste you’re not gonna want to wait an hour, you’re gonna want to do another line within 5 minutes.
It’s not like weed, adderall, hallucinogens, etc. I was a coke addict once. When they talk about drugs changing you, controlling you, making you a different person, they’re talking about cocaine.
idk I think i'm built different, and I imagine the addictive potential is lessened when not snorting/injecting/smoking it (if anything I would do it sublingually because snorting shit sucks)
probably not gonna do it anyway because $80 for what sounds like at most 20-25 hours of high (assuming 1g is enough for 20-25 doses) is expensive af, I might as well just pay for healthcare and get an adderall script again🙄
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