Ghetto uprising
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Ghetto Uprising refers to an armed struggle by Jews and other ethnic groups incarcerated in Nazi Ghettos during World War II against the plans to deport all the inhabitants to concentration and death camps. The best known and the biggest of such uprisings took place in Warsaw in April 1943 (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising), but there were also other such struggles in other Polish cities:
- Będzin Ghetto Uprising
- Białystok Ghetto Uprising - Antyfaszystowska Organizacja Bojowa
- Częstochowa Ghetto Uprising
- Łachwa Ghetto Uprising
- Mińsk Mazowiecki Ghetto Uprising
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - organised by ŻOB and ŻZW
To some extent the armed struggle was also carried out during the final liquidation of Ghettos in:
- Kraków Ghetto Uprising
- Łódź Ghetto Uprising
- Lwów Ghetto Uprising
- Marcinkance Ghetto Uprising
- Pińsk Ghetto Uprising
- Sosnowiec Ghetto Uprising
- Wilno (Vilna) Ghetto Uprising - Fareinigte Partizaner Organizacje
