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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.
- Captured Hehalutz Fighters Photograph
From right: Małka Zdrojewicz, Bluma and Rachela...
- Photograph of a Boy Surrendering Outside a Bunker
The photograph, originally titled Mit Gewalt aus Bunkern...
- Ferdinand Von Sammern-Frankenegg
Von Sammern-Frankenegg remained in Warsaw until his first...
- Dawid Wdowiński
Dawid (David) Wdowiński (1895–1970) was a psychiatrist and...
- Grossaktion Warsaw
The Grossaktion Warsaw ("Great Action") was the Nazi code...
- Alfred Nossig
Sculpture by Nossig of King Solomon, c. 1900. Alfred Nossig...
- Warsaw Ghetto
Suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Captured Jews...
- Captured Hehalutz Fighters Photograph
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. 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 April 1943, as the Nazis came to deport the remaining 50,000 residents of the Warsaw Ghetto, they were met with mines, grenades, and bullets. The Warsaw Ghetto was established on October 12, 1940, just over a year after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, starting World War II.
The best known and the biggest of all Jewish uprisings during the Holocaust took place in the Warsaw Ghetto between 19 April and 16 May 1943, and in Białystok in August. In the course of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 56,065 Jews were either killed on the spot or captured and transported aboard Holocaust trains to extermination camps before the ...
All Jewish residents were ordered into the designated area, which was sealed off from the rest of the city in November 1940. The ghetto was enclosed by a wall that was over 10 feet high, topped with barbed wire, and closely guarded to prevent movement between the ghetto and the rest of Warsaw.
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. The ghetto fighters were able to hold out for nearly a month, but on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended.
