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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...
- Captured Hehalutz Fighters Photograph
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 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April–May 1943 signaled a last, heroic act of defiance in the face of impending annihilation. The demolition by the Nazis of the Great Synagogue (now restored) symbolized the end of six centuries of Jewish 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.
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 19, 2023 · On April 19, 1943, a group of Jews living inside the Nazi-created Warsaw Ghetto in Poland began an armed uprising against Hitler’s occupying forces. The monthlong fight represented the largest...
