The Jews, armed with 17 pistols and several thousand grenades, open fire on the entering German troops. After an hour of skirmishing, the Germans retreat. The ghetto becomes bombarded with mortars and machine guns. Germans kill all the sick in the Czyste hospital. Then they set the hospital on fire.
Jewish resistance continues with grenades and home made bombs.
But the Jews continue their counter attacks from rooftops above, doorways and windows. Jewish women and children are huddled in buildings by their protectors, only leaving upon those structures being set on fire. That month, SS doctors castrate all males between the ages twenty and twenty four in Block 27. They are mostly killed by machine gun. Captured Jewish Female fighters attack their captors, most of the women are killed by machine gun fire as well.