Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

During the summer

Jul 28, 1942

Jewish fighting Organisation is established

1 year later.

Jan 18, 1943

Germans renewed deportations from the Warsaw Ghetto. They encounter a resistance from the ZOB this time though.

Killing of the Jews.

Jan 21, 1943

In an act of retaliation, the Germans massacre 1000 Jews in the main square.

Germans begin final destruction of the Ghetto.

Apr 19, 1943

Germans under the control of the SS General Juergen Stroop, began the final destruction of the ghetto and the deportation of the remaining Jews. But the Ghettos fought back barricading themselves in buildings. After three days the Germans started to burn them out house by house.

Ghetto destroyed, uprising is ended.

May 16, 1943

After a month of constant fighting the germans blew up the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, signalling the end in the uprising.