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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising  (April 19 - May 19, 1943)  Holocaust
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Print Friendly and PDF  In 1942, Hitler decided to liquidate the
ghettos and, within 18 months, had the more than two million
Jews who’d survived the ghettos deported to death camps.  The
Germans ordered the Jewish “police” in the Warsaw ghetto to
round up people for deportation. Approximately 300,000 men,
women, and children were packed in cattle cars and transported
to the Treblinka death camp where they were murdered. This left
a Jewish population of between 55,000 and 60,000 in the ghetto.
Mordecai Anielewicz  In April 1943, the Jews learned the Germans
planned to deport all the people who remained in the Warsaw
ghetto to Treblinka. A group of mostly young people formed an
organization called the Z.O.B. (for the Polish name, Zydowska
Organizacja Bojowa, which means Jewish Fighting Organization).
The Z.O.B., led by 23-yea