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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...
- Ghetto uprisings
Incident type. Armed revolt. The ghetto uprisings during...
- Warsaw Ghetto
Suppression of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Captured Jews...
- Captured Hehalutz Fighters Photograph
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, not to be confused with the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, was one of the first and largest acts of armed resistance against the Nazi persecution of the Jews. 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.
Major Events: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Related Places: Poland. Warsaw Ghetto, 840-acre (340-hectare) area of Warsaw that consisted of the city’s old Jewish quarter. During the German occupation of Poland (1939–45), the Nazis enclosed it at first with barbed wire but later with a brick wall 10 feet (3 meters) high and 11 miles (18 km) long.
April 19, 1943. On this date, the Warsaw ghetto uprising began, the largest uprising by Jews during WWII and the first significant urban revolt against German occupation in Europe.
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.
