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On April 19, 1943, the eve of the Passover holiday, the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto began their final act of armed resistance against the Germans. Lasting twenty-seven days, this act of resistance came to be known as the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Apr 12, 2024 · On January 9, 1943, Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS (the Nazi paramilitary corps), visited the Warsaw ghetto. He ordered the deportation of another 8,000 Jews. The January deportations caught the Jews by surprise, and ghetto residents thought that the end had come.
- Michael Berenbaum
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Yiddish: אױפֿשטאַנד אין װאַרשעװער געטאָ, romanized: Ufshtand in Varshever Geto; Polish: powstanie w getcie warszawskim; German: Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto) 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 ...
- 19 April – 16 May 1943
- Uprising suppressed
Apr 19, 2012 · April 19 to May 16, 1943. Ghetto destroyed, uprising ends. On April 19, 1943, the Germans, under the command of SS General Jürgen Stroop, begin the final destruction of the ghetto and the deportation of the remaining Jews. The ghetto population, however, does not report for deportations.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Jerzy Ficowski. 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.
Apr 19, 2018 · The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto helped inspire Treblinka’s lesser-known revolt—a brave final stand that, like the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, had deadly consequences for its fighters. Henryk...
