Jewish Ghetto uprisings

Jewish ghetto uprisings, or simply Ghetto uprisings, refer to a series of armed rebellions conducted by Polish Jews in Nazi ghettos in which Polish Jews were forced to live during the Holocaust. The uprisings happened in over 100 locations across Nazi-occupied Poland, 


  mainly in eastern Poland.

Select list of uprisings


The uprisings happened in 5 major cities, 5 major concentration and extermination camps, 18 forced labor camps and 45 provincial towns, 
 Photographs of the Mizocz shootings  in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) collection (No. 17876, 17877, 17878, 17879). Retrieved 26 October 2015.
  some of which include

 Slonim Ghetto Uprising of June 29, 1942
 Łachwa Ghetto Uprising of September 3, 1942
 Mizoch Ghetto Uprising of October 14, 1942
 Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto Uprising of January 10, 1943
 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 19 – May 16, 1943, led by the ŻOB and ŻZW
 Częstochowa Ghetto Uprising of June 25 – 30, 1943
 Będzin Ghetto Uprising also known as the Będzin-Sosnowiec Ghetto Uprising of August 3, 1943
 Białystok Ghetto Uprising August 16–17, 1943, organized by the Antyfaszystowska Organizacja Bojowa


Gallery

Notable Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

References

Category:The Holocaust
Category:20th century in Poland