Beasts in human clothing. Executioners of the Warsaw Ghetto.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was pacified primarily by Waffen-SS units, Ordnungspolizei, and Trawnikimännerze (Trawnikimen), or sentries, primarily of Ukrainian origin. They were supported by Wehrmacht soldiers and Polish Blue Police. Their cruelty and greed seemed limitless. When the uprising broke out in the ghetto on April 19, 1943, the residents of the tenement house at Muranowska 38 retreated to a half-finished bunker. It stretched from the basement of one of the outbuildings in the courtyard to the cellars beneath a ruined house adjacent to Niska Street. In five […]