Ghetto uprisings

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Not to be confused with
death camps. Picture taken at Nowolipie street, near the intersection with Smocza
LocationGerman-occupied EuropeDate1941–43, World War II
Incident typeArmed revolt

The ghetto uprisings during

Jewish underground resistance movements developed almost instantly, although ghettoization had severely limited their access to resources.[3]

The ghetto fighters took up arms during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust known as Operation Reinhard (launched in 1942), against the Nazi plans to deport all prisoners – men, women and children – to camps, with the aim of their mass extermination.[3]

History

Armed resistance was offered in over 100 locations on either side of Polish-Soviet

in Mizocz.[12][13]

Selected ghetto uprisings during the Holocaust

Main article:
Jewish resistance under Nazi rule

The uprisings erupted in five major cities, 45 provincial towns, 5 major concentration and extermination camps, as well as in at least 18 forced labor camps.[14] Notable ghetto uprisings included:[15]

  • Slonim Ghetto
    revolt of 29 June 1942
  • Łachwa (Lakhva) Ghetto Uprising of 3 September 1942
  • Mizoch Ghetto Uprising of 14 October 1942
  • Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto prisoner revolt of 10 January 1943
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  • Częstochowa Ghetto Uprising
    of 25–30 June 1943
  • Będzin Ghetto Uprising also known as the Będzin-Sosnowiec Ghetto Uprising of 3 August 1943
  • Antyfaszystowska Organizacja Bojowa

To some extent, the final liquidation of other ghettos was also met with armed struggle:

See also

Notes

  1. ISBN 0521838754, By the end of 1940, the forced-labor program in the General Government
    had registered over 700,000 Jewish men and women who were working for the German economy in ghetto businesses and as labor for projects outside the ghetto; there would be more.
  2. ^ Marek Edelman. "The Ghetto Fights". The Warsaw Ghetto: The 45th Anniversary of the Uprising. Literature of the Holocaust, at the University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Resistance in Ghettos". Jewish Uprisings in Ghettos and Camps, 1941–1944. Holocaust Encyclopedia. June 10, 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  4. ^ Shmuel Krakowski (2010), Armed Resistance, YIVO
  5. ^ "Jewish Resistance". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2011. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2014 – via Internet Archive.
  6. ^ "April–May 1943, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising". Timeline of Events. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  7. ^ "World War II: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising". Originally published by World War II magazine. 12 June 2006. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  8. ^ See also Stroop Report for supplementary data
  9. ^ Marcin Wilczek (19 April 2011). "A Somber Anniversary". ZSSEDU. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  10. ISBN 978-1584657293 – via Google Books preview. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help
    )
  11. ^ "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising". Holocaust Encyclopedia. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC. 2012. Archived from the original on October 28, 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
  12. ISBN 0313353093
    .
  13. USHMM collection (No. 17876, 17877, 17878
    , 17879). Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  14. ^ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Resistance during the Holocaust (PDF), The Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance, p. 6 of 56 in current document.
  15. ^ "Map of the Jewish uprisings in World War II" (PDF file, direct download 169 KB). Yad Vashem. 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2014.

References

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