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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Back in the day on April 19th, 1943, the Jewish people of the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against their Nazi oppressors. Having taken place during World War II, many of those living within the bleak confines of the densely packed area in occupied Poland staged a desperate last stand against the impossibility of their situation. The Warsaw Ghetto had been established two and a half years prior to the uprising as hundreds of thousands of Jewish people were subjected to the threat of starvation and death by disease. When the Nazi’s first proposed deporting Jews from the area, resistance was virtually non-existent. However, once it became known that the destination of those relocated was the Treblinka death camp more often than not, the seeds of rebellion took hold. An incident in January 1943 sparked Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler to order the ghetto liquidated.

The ensuing battle began in the early morning hours of April 19th and Jewish insurgents held out for nearly a month before being finally defeated in what was the largest and most well known revolt of its kind against the Nazi ghettos.

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