The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was an operation that Warsaw’s Jews carefully planned against their Axis oppressors. They managed to maintain their resistance for twenty‐seven days, even though the Waffen‐SS used tanks and other heavy weapons as means of counterinsurgency. Sadly, the Axis exterminated at least 50,000 Jews during or shortly after this uprising, but the world shall never forget their sacrifice.


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1942: The Axis established the Majdan‐Tatarski ghetto between the Lublin Ghetto and a Majdanek subcamp.