A secret archives was maintained so the world could one day learn the story of their oppression. By the summer of 1942. the Nazis had decided on a policy of outright extermination of all Jews in Poland. The Judenrat. as the governing body of the ghetto was called. was required to produce at first 5.000 men. women. and children a day for deportation from the ghetto. That number eventually reached 10.000. Told they were being "resettled in the East." the Jews were actually sent in huge human freight trains to the death camps of Auschwitz and Treblinka. Between July 22 and September 22. 1942. when the first series of deportations ended. 300.000 Warsaw Jews had been deported or shot. During these deportations. the ghettos Zionist youth groups had come together to begin planning resistance to the Nazis. They formed the Jewish Fighters OrganizationZOB. They carefully gathered what weapons they could. Small actions against the police began during the fall of 1942. On January 18. 1943. the deportations started again. Only 40.000 to 60.000 Jews remained in the ghetto. Although the ZOBs plans were incomplete. a group of Jewish fighters struck at the Nazis. so surprising them that the deportations were halted after 3 days. Knowing that the Nazis would soon return to exterminate the ghetto entirely. the ZOB hurriedly completed their plans. Arms shops were set up. and defenses were built.
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