Posted on Apr 19, 2021
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Valiant Resistance Against Nazis
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On April 19, 1943, Jews refused to surrender the Warsaw Ghetto to SS officer Jürgen Stroop who then ordered its destruction beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. From the article:
"The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a desperate battle in the spring of 1943 between Jewish fighters in Warsaw, Poland, and their Nazi oppressors. The encircled Jews, armed only with pistols and improvised weapons, fought valiantly and were able to hold off the vastly better armed German troops for four weeks.
The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto marked the largest act of resistance against the Nazis in occupied Europe. While many details of the fighting did not become known until after the end of World War II, the uprising became an enduring inspiration, a potent symbol of Jewish resistance against the brutality of Nazi rule."
"The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a desperate battle in the spring of 1943 between Jewish fighters in Warsaw, Poland, and their Nazi oppressors. The encircled Jews, armed only with pistols and improvised weapons, fought valiantly and were able to hold off the vastly better armed German troops for four weeks.
The uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto marked the largest act of resistance against the Nazis in occupied Europe. While many details of the fighting did not become known until after the end of World War II, the uprising became an enduring inspiration, a potent symbol of Jewish resistance against the brutality of Nazi rule."
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Valiant Resistance Against Nazis
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I actually met someone who lived in the ghetto and escaped...it was horrific.
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Good morning. Thank you for the brief history of the Warsaw Ghetto. I am surprised by the year since I thought that tge Germans had reduced tge Ghetto to ruins and shipped the people out, by the end of 1941 or early 1942.
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