Ghetto Uprising - Definition

Ghetto Uprising refers to an armed struggle by people incarcerated in German Ghettos during World War II against the plans to resettle 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:

• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - organised by ŻOB and ŻZW
• Białystok Ghetto Uprising - Antyfaszystowska Organizacja Bojowa
• Częstochowa
• Mińsk Mazowiecki
• Wilno - Fareinigte Partizaner Organizacje
• Będzin

To some extent the armed struggle was also carried out during the final liquidation of Ghettos in:

• Pińsk
• Wilno
• Kraków
• Lwów
• Sosnowiec
• Łódź