Jewish Ghetto uprisings

Members of the United Partisan Organization (FPO) in the Vilna Ghetto, one of the first armed resistance organizations established in the Nazi ghettos during World War II.

ŻOB's appeal to the Polish people issued on April 23, 1943.

A poster of the Jewish Combat Organization. The Yiddish text reads:
"All people are equal brothers;
Brown, White, Black, and Yellow.
To talk of peoples, colors, races
‒ Is all a made-up story!"

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. The uprisings happened in over 100 locations across Nazi-occupied Poland, mainly in eastern Poland.

Select list of uprisings

Picture taken at Nowolipie street looking East, near intersection with Smocza street, perhaps Nowolipie 64 / Smocza 1. In the back one can see ghetto wall with a gate.

Captured Jews during Warsaw Ghetto Uprising led by the Germans for deportation to death camps. Picture taken at Nowolipie street, near the intersection with Smocza.

The uprisings happened in 5 major cities, 5 major concentration and extermination camps, 18 forced labor camps and 45 provincial towns, some of which include

• Slonim Ghetto Uprising of June 29, 1942
• Łachwa Ghetto Uprising of September 3, 1942
• Mizoch Ghetto Uprising of October 14, 1942
• Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto Uprising of January 10, 1943
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 19 – May 16, 1943, led by the ŻOB and ŻZW
• Częstochowa Ghetto Uprising of June 25 – 30, 1943
• Będzin Ghetto Uprising also known as the Będzin-Sosnowiec Ghetto Uprising of August 3, 1943
• Białystok Ghetto Uprising August 16–17, 1943, organized by the Antyfaszystowska Organizacja Bojowa

Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, Warsaw, Poland.

70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Monument to the the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw.

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)

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• Jedwabne pogrom
• Antisemitism in Europe
• Secondary antisemitism
• The Holocaust in Romania
• Holocaust uniqueness debate