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Who: Jewish people

What: Jewish resistance against the Great Action, disguised as the Resettlement Operation, deporting Jewish people, transporting them to killing centers

When: April 1943

Where: Warsaw ghetto, the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe

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the commander Mordecai Anielewicz
SS and Police Leader Jürgen Stroop

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Details: In response to the deportations to the killing centers, Jewish people banded together and organized a resistance known as the Jewish Combat Organization

Dates: the resistance group was established in July 1942, the first resistance was January 1943 led by the commander Mordecai Anielewicz, the last resistance was April 1943

Important Facts: The final resistance in April 1943 lasting 27 days became known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The organization held them off for a while but the Germans eventually burned and demolished the Warsaw ghetto, seizing the organization's quarters.

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The first resistance, the Jewish organization held of the Germans, and some were able to escape and disperse.

The final resistance in April 1943 lasting 27 days became known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The organization held them off for a while but the Germans eventually burned and demolished the Warsaw ghetto, seizing the organization's quarters.

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Mordecai Anielewicz

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https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-23776261

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Historical footage from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising has been enhanced and turned into the movie Warsaw Rising.

The 63-day rebellion was organised by the Polish resistance to liberate the city from Nazi occupation.

The Poles believed they were about to be liberated by the Russians, but the Red Army did not arrive as expected and the uprising was crushed. More than 200,000 people died.

The Warsaw Rising Museum hired cinematographers to add coloration and sound to give a real-life feel to the footage.

Claudia Redmond reports.

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Historical footage from the 1944 Warsaw Uprising has been enhanced and turned into the movie Warsaw Rising. The 63-day rebellion was organised by the Polish resistance to liberate the city from Nazi occupation. The Poles believed they were about to be liberated by the Russians, but the Red Army did not arrive as expected and the uprising was crushed.

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SS and Police Leader Jürgen Stroop

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The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a violent revolt that occurred from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II. Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged the armed revolt to prevent deportations to Nazi-run extermination camps. The Warsaw uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.

Warsaw Ghetto

Shortly after the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, more than 400,000 Jews in Warsaw, the capital city, were confined to an area of the city that was little more than 1 square mile.

In November 1940, this Jewish ghetto was sealed off by brick walls, barbed wire and armed guards, and anyone caught leaving was shot on sight. The Nazis controlled the amount of food that was brought into the ghetto, and disease and starvation killed thousands each month.

Similar Jewish ghettos were established in cities throughout Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during World War II. The Warsaw ghetto was the largest in Poland.

In July 1942, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi paramilitary corps known as the Shutzstaffel (SS), ordered that Jews be "resettled" to extermination camps. The Jews were told they were being transported to work camps; however, word soon reached the ghetto that deportation to the camps meant death.

Two months later, some 265,000 Jews had been deported from the Warsaw ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp, while more than 20,000 others were sent to a forced-labor camp or killed during the deportation process.

Did you know? On August 2, 1943, some 1,000 Jewish prisoners at Treblinka seized weapons from the camp's armory and staged a revolt. Several hundred inmates escaped; however, many were recaptured and executed.

An estimated 55,000 to 60,000 Jews remained in the Warsaw ghetto, and small groups of these survivors formed underground self-defense units such as the Jewish Combat Organization, or ZOB, which managed to smuggle in a limited supply of weapons from anti-Nazi Poles, and the Jewish Military Union.

On January 18, 1943, when the Nazis entered the ghetto to prepare a group for transfer to a camp, a ZOB unit ambushed them. Fighting lasted for several days before the Germans withdrew. Afterward, the Nazis suspended deportations from the Warsaw ghetto for the next few months.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins

On April 19, 1943, Himmler sent in SS forces and their collaborators with tanks and heavy artillery to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto.

Several hundred resistance fighters, armed with a small cache of weapons, managed to fight the Germans, who far outnumbered them in terms of manpower and weapons, for nearly a month.

However, during that time, the Germans systematically razed the ghetto buildings, block by block, destroying the bunkers where many residents had been hiding. In the process, the Germans killed or captured thousands of Jews.

By May 16, the ghetto was firmly under Nazi control, and on that day, in a symbolic act, the Germans blew up Warsaw's Great Synagogue.

An estimated 7,000 Jews perished during the Warsaw ghetto uprising, while nearly 50,000 others who survived were sent to extermination or labor camps. It's believed that the Germans lost several hundred men in the uprising.

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The Warsaw ghetto uprising was a violent revolt that occurred from April 19 to May 16, 1943, during World War II. Residents of the Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw, Poland, staged the armed revolt to prevent deportations to Nazi-run extermination camps. The Warsaw uprising inspired other revolts in extermination camps and ghettos throughout German-occupied Eastern Europe.

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the largest and most symbolic resistance during the World War II. It inspired other uprisings in other ghettos.