January 18th

On this day - 18th January 1943 - The beginning of the Warsaw ghetto uprising

The Warsaw ghetto uprising was an uprising by the Jews in Poland against the nazi policy of removing the Jews from the ghetto to the extermination camps. It was one of the largest uprising of the Jews during the second wold war.  On January 18th started Germans their second transportation of the Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp. It was this event that led to the first armed conflict between the German nazi police and the Jews in the ghetto. Both sides took causalities in this first armed conflict, and the transportation of the Jews was halted for a few days. The resistance groups inside the ghetto built up their defense and on April 19th started a new armed conflict between the nazi police and the resistance groups inside the ghetto. The resistance lasted until 16th may 1943. 13.000 Jews died in the uprising, most of them in the burning of the ghetto which the German SS had ordered. A movie about the events were created in 2001.