History of War

WWII THIS MONTH… APRIL 1943

WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING

On 19 April 1943, the largest single revolt by Jews against the Nazis during the Second World War began in the Warsaw Ghetto. When Nazi forces attempted to deport its surviving inhabitants they met unexpected resistance. Approximately 700 Jewish insurgents, who had been armed by the Polish Home Army, fought a fierce urban guerrilla campaign they knew

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