What the records say
- When
- 19 Apr 1943 – 16 May 1943
- Kind
- Rebellion
- Coordinates
- 52.25° N, 21.00° E
- Description
- Jewish insurgency against Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland during World War II
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Jewish insurgency against Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland during World War II
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an uprising by the 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 in 1943. It was the largest single revolt by Jews against the Nazis during World War II.
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