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Havi Dreifuss

Havi Dreifuss

Professor

Oct 15, 2026

23:55
Can you comment on the bunkers, hiding places, and sewers during the uprising?
24:01
Yeah, so first of all, we need to remember that those are different hiding places than we had before because Whenever the Germans are entering the ghetto, not only in Warsaw, but in other places as well, people are trying to hide.
24:13
But after the summer Aktion and after what is happening in January forty-- forty-three in the Warsaw, that is when the Germans are entering again to the ghetto, and the Jews understand that they won't allow the ghetto to continue to, to operate, people are trying to have long time hiding places.
24:33
Some of them are in different apartments, some of them are in bur- bunkers under the, the, the, the street, and the, the Jews understand that they will have to hide in those places for months because they believe that the Red Army will come soon.
24:50
So if somebody wants to hide for a long time in a place which he thinks that those streets will be returned to the Polish side of the, of the, of the city, he needs to have food.
25:03
He needs to have a connection to electricity.
25:05
He needs to have connection to water.

1 HR 10 MINS LATER

94:51
In light of what you've just said, can you say something about the initial days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? Can you comment on what happened the first day, the second day, the third day?

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