warsaw ghetto

By zoeymiller

  • deported

    deported
    Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto.

  • Z.O.B

    Z.O.B
    In response to the deportations, several Jewish underground organizations created an armed self-defense unit known as the Jewish Combat Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB). with around 200 members in this organization

  • uprising

    uprising
    the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants.

  • fight back

    fight back
    Armed with pistols, grenades, and a few automatic weapons and rifles, the ZOB fighters stunned the Germans and on the first day of fighting, forcing the German forces to retreat outside the ghetto wall.

  • crushed uprising

    crushed uprising
    the Germans had crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins. Surviving ghetto residents were deported to concentration camps or killing centers.