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Yes, you can fight back against overwhelming odds.
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kimberman
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Post subject: Yes, you can fight back against overwhelming odds. Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:44 am |
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FROM MY COLD, DEAD FINGERS: From a variety of sources, including the novel Unintended Consequences, many list members may be familiar with the temporary but disproportionately successful resistance to the German army by a small band of Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. “Marek Edelman, a cardiologist who was the last surviving commander of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Germans, died Friday in Warsaw. He was 90… Dr. Edelman was one of a handful of young leaders who in April 1943 led a force of 220 poorly armed young Jewish men and women in a desperate and hopeless struggle against the Germans… The fighting continued for three weeks. On one side were 220 ghetto fighters, hungry and relatively untrained youths deployed in 22 units. Each unit had a pistol, five grenades and five homemade bottle bombs. They also had two mines and one submachine gun. Ranged against them, on a daily average, were 36 German officers and 2,054 others with an arsenal that included 82 machine guns, 135 submachine guns and 1,358 rifles along with armored vehicles, artillery and air power used to set the ghetto ablaze…” http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/03/world ... wanted=all
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alyx
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Post subject: Re: Yes, you can fight back against overwhelming odds. Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 11:58 am |
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RIP.
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Dick Unger
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Post subject: Re: Yes, you can fight back against overwhelming odds. Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:14 pm |
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This guy apparently remained in Poland after the war. It could not have been a friendly place and would have held ghastly memories for him. He must have been tougher than hell. I would have loved to meet him.
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jac714
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Post subject: Re: Yes, you can fight back against overwhelming odds. Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:55 pm |
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Dick Unger wrote: This guy apparently remained in Poland after the war. It could not have been a friendly place and would have held ghastly memories for him. He must have been tougher than hell. I would have loved to meet him. + several million
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Jeremiah
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Post subject: Re: Yes, you can fight back against overwhelming odds. Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:12 am |
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Joined: Thu Mar 23, 2006 12:46 pm Posts: 1292 Location: Minneapolis
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jac714 wrote: Dick Unger wrote: This guy apparently remained in Poland after the war. It could not have been a friendly place and would have held ghastly memories for him. He must have been tougher than hell. I would have loved to meet him. + several million Yup. The guy must've had balls that clanked. Seriously.
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