The odds were overwhelming. He was deputy commander of 220 untrained boys withpistols and home-made explosives. Against them were around 2,000 Nazi soldiers, the pick ofthe Wehrmacht, with plenty more behind them. The Nazis had come on the eve of Passover,April 19th 1943, to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto, from which they had been deporting 6,000Jews a week to the death camps. For almost a month Mr Edelman helped keep them at bay,barricaded in the streets around the brushmakers district until the whole place was burneddown round him.
冲突势不可挡。他是220名持有手枪及自制炸弹的未受训练的童子军的副指挥官。他们的敌手是德军精锐约2,000名纳粹士兵,其后还有更多的敌人。纳粹在 1943年4月19日逾越节前夜对华沙犹太人区展开清洗行动,纳粹已在此前一个星期里把该区6000名犹太人赶进了死亡集中营。在近一个月里,爱德曼帮助犹太人在brushmakers区街道设置路障,以牵制[纳粹],直到其周围的整个地区被烧毁。
The ghetto had been established in October 1940 to cut off the city s Jews, with a high walland wire, from the general population. Jews were crammed into its four square kilometresfrom all over the city, Poland and the German Reich. By April 1942 half a million people livedthere, many on filthy straw mattresses directly on the ground. Around 1,500 were dying eachweek from hunger and disease. In those conditions, Mr Edelman said, the most importantthing was just to be alive: not to be one of the naked corpses wheeled past on carts, headsbobbing up and down or knocking on the pavement. A terrible apathy took hold, in whichpeople no longer saw or believed the random horrors round them. He tried to rouse them,first by staying up night after night to print mimeograph newspapers, and then by fighting.
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