Jewish Ghetto uprisings
Jewish ghetto uprisings, or simply Ghetto uprisings, refer to a series of armed rebellions conducted by Polish Jews in Nazi ghettos in which Polish Jews were forced to live during the Holocaust.[1] The uprisings happened in over 100 locations across Nazi-occupied Poland,[1][2] mainly in eastern Poland.[1][2]
Select list of uprisings
The uprisings happened in 5 major cities, 5 major concentration and extermination camps, 18 forced labor camps and 45 provincial towns,[3] some of which include
- Slonim Ghetto Uprising of June 29, 1942[3]
- Łachwa Ghetto Uprising of September 3, 1942[3]
- Mizoch Ghetto Uprising of October 14, 1942[3]
- Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto Uprising of January 10, 1943[3]
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 19 – May 16, 1943, led by the ŻOB and ŻZW[3][4]
- Częstochowa Ghetto Uprising of June 25 – 30, 1943[3]
- Będzin Ghetto Uprising also known as the Będzin-Sosnowiec Ghetto Uprising of August 3, 1943[3]
- Białystok Ghetto Uprising August 16–17, 1943, organized by the Antyfaszystowska Organizacja Bojowa[3]
Gallery
Notable Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
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Mordechai Anielewicz
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Mira Fuchrer
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Yitzhak Zukermann
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Zivia Lubetkin
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Marek Edelman
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Izrael Kanal
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Itzhak Katzenelson
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Michael Klepfisz
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Vladka Meed
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Symcha Ratajzer
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Yitzhak Sukenik
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Dawid Wdowiński (ŻZW)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Wolf Gruner (2006), Jewish Forced Labor Under the Nazis: Economic Needs and Racial Aims, 1938-1944, Cambridge University Press, pp. 249–250, ISBN 0521838754,
By the end of 1940, the forced-labor program in the General Government had registered over 700,000 Jewish men and women who were working for the German economy in ghetto businesses and as labor for projects outside the ghetto; there would be more.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) (March 7, 1943). "58,000 Jews Executed by Nazis in Kolomyja; Thousands Burned Alive". Archive. Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA).
A few hundred Jews remained in their ghetto hideouts. In order to make certain that not a single one of them would remain alive, the chief of the Gestapo ordered the ghetto burnt down to the ground, thus finishing the process of making Kolomyja "completely judenrein."
- Shmuel Krakowski (2010), Armed Resistance, YIVO
- "Jewish Resistance". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). 2011. Archived from the original on January 26, 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2014 – via Internet Archive.
- "April–May 1943, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising". Timeline of Events. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) (March 7, 1943). "58,000 Jews Executed by Nazis in Kolomyja; Thousands Burned Alive". Archive. Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), Resistance during the Holocaust (PDF), The Miles Lerman Center for the Study of Jewish Resistance, p. 6 of 56 in current document
- Photographs of the Mizocz shootings Archived 2012-08-17 at the Wayback Machine in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) collection (No. 17876, 17877, 17878, 17879). Retrieved 26 October 2015.
- "Map of the Jewish uprisings in World War II" (PDF). Yad Vashem. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF file, direct download 169 KB) on 18 July 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ↑ "Heroes, Hucksters, and Storytellers: On the Jewish Military Union (ŻZW)". Jewish Political Studies Review. 25 (1–2). October 31, 2013. Retrieved March 8, 2025.
- ↑ Polski: Pomnik Bohaterów Getta w Warszawie w 70. rocznicę wybuchu powstania w getcie warszawskim.