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Salle 10 - Stalingrad | Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
August 1942 – May 1943

A wooden footbridge connecting the Small and Large Ghettos in Warsaw, spanning an “Aryan” street off-limits to Jews (1942).

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Photo, 1942, Warsaw © USHMM, Washington _73004A

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10.3 An Uprising That Served as an Example

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Documents from the same period

“The Jewish quarter of Warsaw no longer exists!”: a 75-page report by J. Stroop, commander of the German forces, on the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, addressed to Himmler in May 1943.

*Notre Voix* (excerpts) from June 1, 1943—the day after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising—called on the Jews of France to take up arms against the Nazis as part of the FTP.

American singer Paul Robeson sings “Zot Nit Keynmol” in Yiddish (a song from the Vilna Ghetto in support of the Warsaw Ghetto insurgents, which became the anthem of all ghettos).

Fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto captured by the Germans (May 1943). Caption in German: “These bandits defended themselves with weapons.”

Fighters from the Warsaw Ghetto driven out of their bunkers by the Germans (May 1943).

German troops under SS-Gruppenführer Jürgen Stroop leading Jews away to be deported during the uprising (May 1943).