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On May 16, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto was in ruins. Stroop celebrated the Nazi victory by ordering the destruction of the Great Synagogue on Tłomackie Street. During the Uprising, 42,000 people were rounded up and deported to Treblinka and other camps.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps.
On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Jewish insurgents inside the ghetto resisted these efforts. This was the largest uprising by Jews during World War II and the first significant urban revolt against German occupation in Europe.
In January 1943 the Nazis surprised the Jewish fighters, by suddenly deporting 6500 Jews. A struggle ensued in which a German police officer was badly injured and the planned mass deportation...
Jan 17, 2013 · Seventy years ago, on January 18, 1943, in the Warsaw Ghetto, a group of Jews attacked German forces who were rounding up Jews for deportation to the extermination camps.
Apr 17, 2023 · On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. About 700 young Jewish fighters fought the heavily armed and well-trained Germans.
After the mass deportations to Treblinka in the summer of 1942, the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto, led by Mordechai Anielewitz, barricaded themselves in bunkers and resisted the German Aktion of April 1943. After a month of valiant fighting, the Uprising was quashed and the ghetto burned to the ground.
