1943 ⟶ Sobibor Uprising and Escape
Members of the Sobibor extermination camp underground, led b...
Year
1943
🔥 Sobibor Uprising and Escape
Members of the Sobibor extermination camp underground, led by Polish-Jewish prisoner Leon Feldhendler and Soviet-Jewish POW Alexander Pechersky, succeeded in covertly killing eleven German SS officers and a number of camp guards. Although their plan was to kill all the SS and walk out of the main gate of the camp, the killings were discovered and the inmates ran for their lives under fire. About 300 out of the 600 prisoners in the camp escaped into the forests.⟶
SobiborExtermination CampJewish ResistanceHolocaustNazi GermanyPrisoner UprisingWorld War II
✊ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Begins
The Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rise up for the first time, starting the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.⟶
Warsaw GhettoUprisingJewish ResistancePolandHolocaustResistanceGermanyWorld War II
✡️ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Ends
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends. The ghetto has been destroyed, with about 14,000 Jews killed and about another 40,000 sent to the death camps at Majdanek and Treblinka.⟶
Warsaw GhettouprisingHolocaustJewish resistancegenocidedeath campsNazi Germany
🔥 Janowska Camp Uprising
Prisoners of the Janowska concentration camp stage a mass escape/uprising when they are ordered to cover up evidence of a mass-murder. Most are rounded up and killed.⟶
concentration campuprisingJanowskamass murderHolocaustEastern FrontNazi GermanyJewish resistanceescapePoland