Voices Of Yesterday

by Michael Yarwood
(Plymouth UK)

The Novel 'Voices Of Yesterday' is set in the turbulent times of WWII,against the backdrop of the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw. It is a story of wanton cruelty and forced starvation of the nearly 500,000 Jews contained in a walled section of the city.

The Jews were being contained until the Nazis decided what to do with them. Orders were issued to transport them to the death camp of Treblinka.

This entailed the Jews reporting for supposed work details being organised for the East.

At first the Jews did not realise that they were really being sent to the gas chambers.On
realization of the truth the Jews went to ground.
The Waffen SS had to instigate daily round ups of 5-6,000 Jews daily to be marched down to the railhead to await the transports to the camp.

A small but determined group of Jews organised themselves into a fighting force, lacking in weapons they stood alone in their fight against tyranny.

They attacked the Germans from underground bunkers and eventually from the putrid sewers.

The Jews held the might of the Waffen SS at bay for nearly a month armed mainly with homemade weapons until the Ghetto was completely leveled into a square mile of rubble.

Loosely based on factual characters and locations, this is their story.





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