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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: An act of desperate resistance by Polish Jews<!-- wp:html --><p>It is one of the most emblematic events of World War II. On April 19, 1943 a handful of Jewish fighters revolted against Nazi barbarism that had methodically undertaken the deportation and extermination of 400,000 Jews crowded into the Warsaw ghetto since July 1942. Three weeks after the final uprising, nothing remained of the ghetto and its inhabitants. Only 40 survivors managed to escape through the city sewers.</p><!-- /wp:html -->

It is one of the most emblematic events of World War II. On April 19, 1943 a handful of Jewish fighters revolted against Nazi barbarism that had methodically undertaken the deportation and extermination of 400,000 Jews crowded into the Warsaw ghetto since July 1942. Three weeks after the final uprising, nothing remained of the ghetto and its inhabitants. Only 40 survivors managed to escape through the city sewers.

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