The Warsaw Ghetto uprising of April 1943 is better known. But let’s also honor the heroes and martyrs of the Bialystok (Poland) Ghetto who fought the Nazis to the death (and helped hundreds of Jews to escape slaughter) in August of that year.
Crushing resistance by Jewish guerrillas, Nazi SS have "liquidated" Białystok Ghetto, sending 25,000 to death camps. pic.twitter.com/pYHam8YyzF
— WW2 Tweets from 1943 (@RealTimeWWII) August 27, 2015
Despite uprising, most Jews of Białystok Ghetto herded onto cattle trains headed for Treblinka & Majdanek death camps pic.twitter.com/8Gvy3lgP67
— WW2 Tweets from 1943 (@RealTimeWWII) August 27, 2015
Fighting with acid- & petrol-filled bottles, striking from hidden bunkers in ghetto, Jewish resistance help 100s escape Białystok roundup.
— WW2 Tweets from 1943 (@RealTimeWWII) August 27, 2015
Outnumbered & outgunned by Nazis, Jewish guerrillas of Białystok choose to die fighting. Learn more: http://t.co/V7NQiYhaOr
— WW2 Tweets from 1943 (@RealTimeWWII) August 27, 2015
You can learn more about the Bialystok Ghetto fighters– many of them from Zionist youth movements– here.
