The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II
to oppose Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to the gas chambers of the Majdanek and Treblinka extermination camps.
The uprising started on 19 April when the ghetto refused to surrender to the Nazi police commander, who ordered the destruction of the ghetto, block by block, ending on 16 May.
A total of 13,000 Jews were killed, about half of them burnt alive or suffocated. The uprising was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II.
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 19.4.1943 Back: Beit Lohamei Haghettaot - Ghetto Fighters' House named after Yitzhak Katznelson Bronze Diameter 59 mm |
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 20th Anniversary 1943-1963 State Medal 1963 / 5723 Bronze Diameter 60 mm |
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50 years since the Warsaw ghetto uprising Official Award Medal 1993 Bronze Weight 98 grams Diameter 59 mm Design by Ephraim Wichselfish |
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Medal for the Uprising in Warsaw Ghetto Disabled Veterans Salute the Worriors of Uprising in Warsaw Ghetto Medal was awarded by Israel Association of Disabled Veterans of Fight against Nazism 2007 Diameter 60 mm |
The Bialystok Ghetto uprising was an insurrection in the Jewish Bialystok Ghetto against the Nazi German occupation authorities during World War II. The uprising was launched on the night of August 16, 1943, and was the second-largest ghetto uprising organized in Nazi-occupied Poland after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of April-May 1943. A group of about 300 to 500 insurgents armed with 25 rifles and 100 pistols, as well as homemade Molotov cocktails for grenades, attacked the overwhelming German force with a significant loss of life. Leaders of the uprising committed suicide. Several dozen combatants managed to break through and run into the Knysna Forest, where they joined other guerrilla groups.
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Bialystok Ghetto Uprising 12.8.1943 Mordechai Tennenboym Bronze Diameter 59 mm |
Source of texts: Adapted from Wikipedia