The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a revolt by Jewish fighters against the German forces in the Warsaw Ghetto in occupied Poland. By 1943, most of the ghetto's population had been deported to the Treblinka extermination camp, and the remaining Jews, who knew what deportation meant, organised themselves into resistance groups, notably the Jewish Combat Organization led by Mordechai Anielewicz. When SS units under Jurgen Stroop entered the ghetto to complete its liquidation, on the eve of Passover, they met armed resistance. The fighters, who were poorly armed, held out for nearly a month, until the Germans burned the ghetto building by building. Most of the fighters were killed. It was the largest Jewish uprising of the Second World War.
Before and after
- 9 March 1943Birth of Bobby Fischer
- 29 March 1943Birth of John Major
- April 1943Construction of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
- 6 April 1943Publication of The Little Prince
- from 19 April 1943 to 16 May 1943Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- from 11 May 1943 to 30 May 1943Battle of Attu
- from 15 May 1943 to 16 June 1943Battle of the Sutjeska
- 15 May 1943Founding of American Broadcasting Company
- from 15 June 1943 to 29 June 1943Operation Mammoth
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