If our lives are not extinguished under thick layers of ashes. it will be the triumph of humanity: it will be the proof that our lifeforce is stronger than the will of destruction. Such resolve sustained the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto after the Germans first began to carry out their extermination policy in the summer of 1942. The "action." as the deportation was known. began July 22. when the SS announced that nearly all Jews in Warsaw would be "resettled in the east." Jews were evicted from their homes. gathered in groups. and marched off to collection centers without food. water. or sanitation facilities. Transports left twice a day. The guards would crack their whips and fire their pistols into the crowd until each car was filled.
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