Editing Home Army (section)

====Warsaw Ghetto Uprising====
{{Main|Warsaw Ghetto Uprising}}
The Home Army provided the [[Warsaw Ghetto]] with firearms, ammunition, and explosives,<ref name="Wdowiński">{{cite book |author=David Wdowiński |title=And we are not saved |year=1963 |page=222 |publisher=Philosophical Library |location=New York |isbn=0-8022-2486-5}} Note: Chariton and Lazar were never co-authors of Wdowiński's memoir. Wdowiński is considered the "single author."</ref> but only after it was convinced of the eagerness of the [[Jewish Combat Organization]] (''Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa'', ŻOB) to fight,{{r|Cesarani & Kavanaugh|p=67}} and after [[Władysław Sikorski]]'s intervention on the Organization's behalf.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rashke|first=Richard|title=Escape from Sobibor|orig-year=1983|year=1995|edition= 2nd|publisher=University of Illinois Press|isbn=978-0252064791|pages=416}}</ref> Zimmerman describes the supplies as "limited but real".{{r|Baumgarten 2009|p=121-122}} Jewish fighters of the [[Jewish Military Union]] (''Żydowski Związek Wojskowy'', ŻZW) received from the Home Army, among other things, 2 heavy machine guns, 4 light machine guns, 21 submachine guns, 30 rifles, 50 pistols, and over 400 grenades.{{sfnp|Lukas|2012|p=175}} Some supplies were also provided to the ŻOB, but less than to ŻZW with whom the Home Army had closer ties and ideological similarities.<ref name="Wdowiński2">{{cite book|author=[[Dawid Wdowiński|David Wdowiński]]|title=And we are not saved|publisher=Philosophical Library|year=1963|isbn=0-8022-2486-5|location=New York|page=222}} Note: Chariton and Lazar were never co-authors of Wdowiński's memoir. Wdowiński is considered the "single author".</ref> [[Antoni Chruściel]], commander of the Home Army in Warsaw, ordered the entire armory of the [[Wola (Warsaw)|Wola]] district transferred to the ghetto.<ref name=":3" /> In January 1943 the Home Army delivered a larger shipment of 50 pistols, 50 hand grenades, and several kilograms of explosives, along with a number of smaller shipments that carried a total of 70 pistols, 10 rifles, 2 hand machine guns, 1 light machine gun, ammunition, and over 150 kilograms of explosives.<ref name=":3" /><ref name="BaumgartenKenez2009-2">{{cite book|author=[[Peter Kenez]]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iPs1Vaf6F9QC&pg=PA110|title=The Attitude of the Polish Home Army (AK) to the Jewish Question during the Holocaust: the Case of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising|date=January 2009|publisher=University of Delaware Press|isbn=978-0-87413-039-3|editor1=Murray Baumgarten|pages=121–122|editor2=[[Peter Kenez]]|editor3=Bruce Allan Thompson}}</ref> The number of supplies provided to the ghetto resistance has been sometimes described as insufficient, as the Home Army faced a number of dilemmas which forced it to provide no more than limited assistance to the Jewish resistance, such as supply shortages and the inability to arm its own troops, the view (shared by most of the Jewish resistance) that any wide-scale uprising in 1943 would be premature and futile, and the difficulty of coordinating with the internally divided Jewish resistance, coupled with the pro-Soviet attitude of the ŻOB.<ref name="MKPK-6">Monika Koszyńska, Paweł Kosiński, [https://web.archive.org/web/20230404031935/https://warszawa.ipn.gov.pl/download/88/138115/PomocAKdlaGetta1.pdf Pomoc Armii Krajowej dla powstańców żydowskich w getcie warszawskim (wiosna 1943 r.)], 2012, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej. P.6. Quote: W okresie prowadzenia walki bieżącej ZWZ-AK stanowczo unikało starć zbrojnych, które byłyby skazane na niepowodzenie i okupione ofiarami o skali trudnej
do przewidzenia. To podstawowe założenie w praktyce uniemożliwiało AK czynne wystąpienie po stronie Żydów planujących demonstracje zbrojne w likwidowanych przez Niemców gettach... Kłopotem była też niemożność wytypowania przez rozbitą wewnętrznie konspirację żydowską przedstawicieli do prowadzenia rozmów z dowództwem AK.... Ograniczony rozmiar akowskiej pomocy związany był ze stałymi niedoborami uzbrojenia własnych oddziałów... oraz z lewicowym (prosowieckim) obliczem ŻOB...</ref><ref name=":3" /> During the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Home Army units tried to blow up the Ghetto wall twice, carried out diversionary actions outside the Ghetto walls, and attacked German sentries sporadically near the Ghetto walls.<ref name="MKPK-10-18">Monika Koszyńska, Paweł Kosiński, [https://web.archive.org/web/20230404031935/https://warszawa.ipn.gov.pl/download/88/138115/PomocAKdlaGetta1.pdf Pomoc Armii Krajowej dla powstańców żydowskich w getcie warszawskim (wiosna 1943 r.)], 2012, Instytut Pamięci Narodowej. P.10-18</ref><ref name="Zimmerman2015-217218">{{cite book|author=Joshua D. Zimmerman|title=The Polish Underground and the Jews, 1939–1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w4dsCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA217|date=5 June 2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-01426-8|pages=217–218}}</ref> According to [[Marian Fuks (historian)|Marian Fuks]], the Ghetto uprising would not have been possible without supplies from the Polish Home Army.<ref>{{cite interview|url=http://publica.pl/teksty/zimmerman-podziemie-polskie-a-zydzi-solidarnosc-zdrada-i-wszystko-pomiedzy-53475.html|title=Zimmerman: Podziemie polskie a Żydzi. Solidarność, zdrada i wszystko pomiędzy|language=pl|trans-title=Zimmerman: Polish underground and Jews. Solidarity, betrayal and everything in between|subject=Joshua D. Zimmerman|interviewer=Filip Mazurczak|date=October 9, 2015|website=ResPublica}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite journal|last=Fuks|first=Marian|author-link=Marian Fuks (historian)|date=1989|title=Pomoc Polaków bojownikom getta warszawskiego|trans-title=Assistance of Poles in the Warsaw ghetto uprising|url=https://cbj.jhi.pl/documents/787962/145/|journal=Biuletyn Żydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego|language=pl|volume=1|issue=149|pages=43–52, 144|quote=Without assistance of Poles and even their active participation in some actions, without the supply of arms from the Polish underground movement - the outbreak of the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto was impossible.}}</ref>

A year later, during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, the [[Batalion Zośka|Zośka Battalion]] liberated hundreds of Jewish inmates from the [[Gęsiówka]] section of the [[Warsaw concentration camp]].<ref name="Snyder 2015"/>{{rp|275}}