Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The photos on this page are from the
photo album of Jürgen Stroop, the Commander of the SS troops
who put down the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
Beginning in June 1942, the Jews in the
Warsaw Ghetto were transported to the Treblinka death camp on
the Bug river, near the eastern border of German-occupied Poland,
where they were immediately killed in gas chambers. Eventually,
reports of the mass murder got back to the Warsaw Ghetto and
a resistance organizatiion called the Z.O.B. (Zydowska Organizacja
Bojowa) was formed to prevent any more deportations from the
ghetto. The leader of the Z.O.B. was Mordecai Anielewicz.
In January 1943, the Jews in the Ghetto
resisted the next round-up for deportation to Treblinka; the
young Z.O.B fighters fired on German troops as they tried to
get the Jews into railroad cars to be transported to the death
camp. The Germans retreated after four days of fighting and the
Jews began to prepare to hold out against future attempts to
liquidate the ghetto.
The event known as the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising began on April 19, 1943 and ended on May 16, 1943. A
total of 56,000 Jews were captured and sent to Treblinka and
other death camps.
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