The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began on April 19 and ended on May 16, killing an estimated 7,000 Jews. On this day in 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. The revolt would last a few days short of a month. (…) Approximately 60,000 Jews were left in the ghetto, and they formed groups such as the Jewish Combat Organization and the ZOB. These groups aimed to fight back and managed to have weapons smuggled into the ghetto by anti-Nazi Poles and the Jewish Military Union. In mid-January of 1943, the Nazis entered the ghetto to prepare a new group for deportation but were ambushed by the ZOB. The fighting lasted a few days, after which deportations were suspended for a few months. On April 19, Himmler sent in SS forces to raze the ghetto to the ground. The forces far outnumbered the Jews and were equipped with tanks and heavy artillery, but the Jews put up a fight that lasted until May 16 when the SS regained control of the ghettos. An estimated 7,000 Jews were killed in the uprising, and it is believed that they took several hundred Germans with them.
via jp: On This Day: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins
Von Autor unbekannt (<a href=”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Konrad_(SS_officer)” class=”extiw” title=”en:Franz Konrad (SS officer)”>Franz Konrad</a> confessed to taking some of the photographs, the rest was probably taken by photographers from Propaganda Kompanie nr 689.<a href=”#cite_note-Stempowski-1″>[1]</a><a href=”#cite_note-Zbikowski-2″>[2]</a>) – High-resolution image from <a rel=”nofollow” class=”external free” href=”http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewitem.pl?item=55460″>http://narademo.umiacs.umd.edu/cgi-bin/isadg/viewitem.pl?item=55460</a>, Gemeinfrei, Link