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Bialystok ghetto uprising
Jewish resistance fighters fought German forces during the Bialystok ghetto liquidation.
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... On August 16, 1943, the German army and the SS
contingents, who had entered the ghetto to liquidate it,
were welcomed by heavy gunfire. A self-defense organi-
zation had decided that the Nazis would have to pay
dearly for Jewish lives. In the narrow ghetto streets, the
following slogans reverberated: ‘“‘Don’t let yourselves be
destroyed.” “Die with honor.” Unfortunately, only a
few were armed because of a scarcity of weapons. Axes
and crowbars were added to the Jewish arsenal and
with these primitive weapons the Jews attacked the
Germans, who were armed to the teeth. ...Connected nodes