194319 April–16 May 1943 · Warsaw

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw, with its sculpted bronze figures — Photo: Pudelek. CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The Germans sealed some 400,000 Jews into the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940 and in summer 1942 deported about 265,000 from the Umschlagplatz to be gassed at Treblinka. When they came to deport the rest, Jewish fighters resisted for almost a month with pistols and petrol bombs. The SS burned the ghetto block by block and blew up the Great Synagogue.

Holocaust & Remembrance
Jewish Heritage
Revolutions & Resistance
Warsaw, Poland

Sites

Site 1: Monument to the Ghetto Heroes and POLIN MuseumThe 1948 monument facing the museum of Polish Jewish history.Map ↗
Site 2: Umschlagplatz memorialMarble wall marking the square where deportation trains were loaded.Map ↗
Site 3: Treblinka memorialA field of 17,000 stones marking the death camp, 90 minutes from Warsaw.Map ↗