Photo from Jürgen Stroop's report to Heinrich Himmler from May 1943 and one of the best-known pictures of World War II. The original German caption reads: "Forcibly pulled out of dug-outs". The boy in the picture might be Tsvi Nussbaum, who survived the Holocaust.
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Conflict | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Date | April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943 | Location | Warsaw Ghetto, General Government | Result | German victory | Nazi Germany (Waffen-SS, SD, OrPo, Gestapo, Wehrmacht) Collaborators (Latvian police, Jewish police, Polish police, Lithuanian police, Ukrainian volunteers) | Jewish resistance
* Socialist red flag.svg ŻOB
* Poland ŻZW
Polish resistance
* AK (Home Army)
* GL (People's Guard) | Jürgen Stroop Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg Franz Bürkl | Mordechaj Anielewicz Dawid Moryc Apfelbaum Icchak Cukierman Marek Edelman Paweł Frenkiel Henryk Iwański (AK) Zivia Lubetkin Dawid Wdowiński | Official daily average of 2,090 troops (including 821 Waffen-SS) according to the German internal report. | Some 220 to 600 ŻOB and 150 to 400 ŻZW fighters (on April 19, 1943), thousands of civilians either fought or provided support. Smaller numbers of Polish fighters outside of the ghetto provided support. | 17 killed 93 wounded (German figures) 300 casualties (Jewish estimate) | 13,000 killed on site 56,885 gassed (German estimate) |
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ( ; ; ) was the Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp.
The insurgency was launched against the Germans on January 18, 1943. The most significant portion of the rebellion took place from April 19 until May 16, 1943, and ended when the poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by the German troops under the direct command of Jürgen Stroop. It was the largest single revolt by the Jews during the Holocaust.
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