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.
In context
Also in 1943 (5 other events on record)
- German surrender at Stalingrad · Europe · War
- Bengal famine kills three million · South Asia · Disaster
- Casablanca Conference demands unconditional surrender · Africa · War
- Tehran Conference Big Three meet · Middle East · Politics
- Allies invade Sicily · Europe · War
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