German Soldiers on Nowolipie Street during Warsaw Ghetto uprising.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 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 Majdanek and Treblinka death camps.

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After the summer of 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 fighters. Resistance effort to another round up in January 1943 was partially successful and spurred Polish resistance groups to support the Jews in their plight.

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The uprising started on 19th April when the ghetto refused to surrender to the police commander SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop, who ordered the burning of the ghetto, block by block, ending on 16 May. A total of 13,000 Jews died. German casualties were probably fewer than 150, with Stroop reporting 110 casualties.

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It was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II. The Jews knew that the uprising was doomed and their survival was unlikely. Marek Edelman, the only surviving ŻOB commander, said their inspiration to fight was "to pick the time and place of our deaths".

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According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the uprising was...

"one of the most significant occurrences in the history of the Jewish people".

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Source: Wikipedia

Jewish women and children being forcibly removed from a bunker.

SS-Brigadeführer Jürgen Stroop (centre) who ordered the burning of the Ghetto.

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Jürgen Stroop was a German SS commander during the Nazi era, who served as SS and Police Leader in occupied Poland. He led the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 and wrote the Stroop Report, a book length account of the operation. Following the defeat of Germany, Stroop was prosecuted during the Dachau Trials and convicted of murdering nine US prisoners of war. After his extradition to Poland, Stroop was tried, convicted, and executed for crimes against humanity.