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| − | Beginning at | + | 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. |
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| + | 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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| + | ==See also== | ||
| + | *[[Warsaw Uprising]], unrelated uprising in 1944 | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
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Revision as of 16:48, August 3, 2019
Beginning at 3 am on April 19, 1943, Nazi tanks and soldiers began assaulting a Jewish ghetto in Poland.[1] 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.
See also
- Warsaw Uprising, unrelated uprising in 1944