Warsaw Ghetto uprising
April 19, 1943
As the Nazis prepared to deport the last Warsaw Jews to Treblinka, a few hundred young fighters with smuggled pistols and homemade bombs rose up. They held out for nearly a month against tanks and flamethrowers. The Germans burned the ghetto block by block. At the end, a leader wrote, The dream of my life has become reality.
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