Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Between 19 April and 16 May 1943, Jewish fighters of the ZOB (Jewish Combat Organisation) and ZZW staged an armed uprising inside the Warsaw Ghetto against Nazi German forces attempting the final deportation of remaining ghetto residents to the Treblinka extermination camp. Armed with smuggled pistols, homemade grenades, and a handful of rifles, approximately 700 fighters — men and women — held off an SS force of several thousand for nearly a month, the longest urban revolt against Nazi occupation of the war. The Germans systematically burned the ghetto block by block. The uprising was crushed on 16 May when SS commander Jürgen Stroop ordered the Great Synagogue blown up. An estimated 13,000 Jews were killed during the uprising; the surviving ~57,000 were deported to Treblinka.
- Year: 1943 CE
- Category: Military
