Topic > Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto - 1145

It was not only made up of Jews, but also Poles, German citizens and police officers. Each act of smuggling had to be carefully planned and executed exactly to be successful. To avoid detection, smugglers had to be creative and find new ways to transport things into the Ghetto. Some of these transports included hearses, building and street crossings, and streetcars. (Battrick, 207) Hearses were used to bring entire horses and cows into the Ghetto. The Catholic cemetery was located right next to the Jewish cemetery, so the trade was inconspicuous. The diarist and archivist Emanuel Ringelblum reported that up to 26 cows were brought into the ghetto in one night. If there was a loose stone in the wall of a building on the Aryan side, the food would be passed to the Ghetto side; most commonly where the Aryan and Jewish homes were connected. A lot of bribes occurred in this form of smuggling because it was more obvious and the police were always trying to close the gap. Carol Battrick wrote: “Each time the gate was blocked by the Germans, the Jewish and Polish police were bribed, and before the lime had even had a chance to dry, the wall was torn down again to allow the smuggling to proceed once again. . ” (Battrick 208) And if so many people were to be bribed for just one gap in the wall, it is unimaginable how many people would have to be bribed for the entire