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Warsaw ghetto uprising, 1943. The city of Warsaw is the capital of Poland. Before World War II, Warsaw was the center of Jewish life and culture in Poland. Warsaw's prewar Jewish population of more than 350,000 constituted about 30 percent of the city's total population. The Warsaw Jewish community was the largest in both Poland and Europe, and ...
May 3, 1943: Plane crash kills General Frank M. Andrews, Commander of U.S. Army operations in Europe May 14, 1943: Australian hospital ship Centaur sunk by Japanese sub, 268 medical personnel killed May 15, 1943: "Bat bomb" experiment sets fire to Carlsbad Army Air Force base May 16, 1943: SS Polizeifuhrer Stroop announces final eradication of Warsaw's Jewish quarter and its 56,065 residents
Lwów Uprising. The Lwów Uprising ( Polish: powstanie lwowskie) was an armed insurrection by the Home Army ( Polish: Armia Krajowa) underground forces of the Polish resistance movement in World War II against the Nazi German occupation of the city of Lviv in the latter stages of World War II. It began on 23 July 1944 as part of a secret plan ...
Rokhl Auerbakh. Rokhl Auerbakh ( Hebrew: רחל אוירבך, also spelled Rokhl Oyerbakh and Rachel Auerbach) (18 December 1903 – 31 May 1976) [1] was an Israeli writer, essayist, historian, Holocaust scholar, and Holocaust survivor. She wrote prolifically in both Polish and Yiddish, focusing on prewar Jewish cultural life and postwar ...
The total length of the ghetto wall in 1940 was about 18 km. After the end of World War II, the freestanding walls of the Jewish district, which survived the Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising, were largely demolished. Few fragments of the walls running between the properties have been preserved, as well as the walls of the pre-war ...
Yitzhak Zuckerman testifies for the prosecution during the trial of Adolf Eichmann in 1961. Yitzhak Zuckerman ( Polish: Icchak Cukierman; Hebrew: יצחק צוקרמן; 13 December 1915 – 17 June 1981), also known by his nom de guerre " Antek ", was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 against Nazi Germany during World War ...
Warsaw Ghetto. The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes ( Polish: Pomnik Bohaterów Getta) is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 during the Second World War. It is located in the area which was formerly a part of the Warsaw Ghetto, at the spot where the first armed clash of the uprising took place.
