Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto, Germany-occupied Poland, against Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps. The uprising started on 19 April when the ghetto refused to surrender to the police commander SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop, who ordered the destruction of the ghetto, block by block, ending on 16 May. A total of 13,000 Jews were killed, about half of them burnt alive or suffocated. The uprising was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II and was led by the Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) and Jewish Military Union (ŻZW).learn more on wikipedia