| − | Beginning at 3am on April 19, 1943, [[Nazi]] tanks and soldiers began assaulting a Jewish ghetto in Poland.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX103.html</ref> Jewish resistance fighters, totaling 700 to 750, opposed 2000 heavily armed Germans. The Jewish resistance fighters had some weapons, but no more than three light machine guns. | + | Beginning at 3 am on April 19, 1943, [[Nazi]] tanks and soldiers began assaulting a Jewish ghetto in Poland.<ref>https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX103.html</ref> Jewish resistance fighters, totaling 700 to 750, opposed 2000 heavily armed Germans. The Jewish resistance fighters had some weapons, but no more than three light machine guns. |
| | + | The German soldiers sought to clear the ghetto of 60,000 Jewish residents in only three days. But the resistance fighters held off the Nazis for nearly a month, marking the first time in [[World War II]] that there was an uprising against Nazis in territory under German control. Eventually, the German army destroyed the ghetto and its synagogue. |
| − | The German soldiers sought to clear the ghetto of 60,000 Jewish residents in only three days. But the resistance fighters held off the Nazis for nearly a month, marking the first time in [[World War II]] that there was an uprising against Nazis in territory under German control. Eventually the German army destroyed the ghetto and its synagogue.
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