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Concept
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Summary
Infobox military conflict
| conflict = Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
| partof = World War II and the Holocaust
| image = Stroop Report - Warsaw Ghetto Uprising BW.jpg
| alt = A Jewish boy surrenders in Warsaw, from the Stroop Report to Heinrich Himmler from May 1943
| image_size = 300px
| caption = Jewish women and children forcibly removed from a bunker by Schutzstaffel (SS) units for deportation either to Majdanek or Treblinka extermination camps (1943); one of the most iconic pictures of World War II.
| date = 19 April – 16 May 1943
| place = Warsaw Ghetto, General Government (present-day Poland)
| coordinates =
| result = Uprising defeated
Surviving Jews deported to Majdanek and Treblinka death camps
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| combatant2 =
| commander1 =
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| strength1 = Daily average of 2,090, including 821 Waffen-SS
| strength2 = About 600 ŻOB and about 400 ŻZW fighters, plus a number of Polish fighters
| casualties1 = January uprising:
April uprising:
German figures:Jewish resistance estimate:300 casualtiesMcDonough, Frank: The Hitler Years, Volume 2: Disaster 1940–1945, p. 396
| casualties2 = 56,065 killed or captured of which approximately 36,000 deported to extermination camps (German estimate)
| notes =
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (אױפֿשטאַנד אין װאַרשעװער געטאָ; powstanie w getcie warszawskim; Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto) 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.
After the Grossaktion Warsaw of summer 1942, in which more than a quarter of a million Jews were deported from the ghetto to Treblinka and murdered, the remaining Jews began to build bunkers and smuggle weapons and explosives into the ghetto. The left-wing Jewish Combat Organization (ŻOB) and right-wing Jewish Military Union (ŻZW) formed and began to train.
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