The Devastation Of The Holocaust: The Ghetto Uprising

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The Ghetto Uprising lasted from April 19 to May 15, 1943 and only sixty thousand residents remained in the ghetto. Over seven thousand of the residents were executed and six thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine people were deported to Treblinka. Around six thousand resisters were killed in the war due to explosions or fires that spread through the ghetto. Through the Spring of 1943 over forty percent of the people living inside the walls had been deported to Treblinka. In the Uprising war over fifteen thousand people died in battle. When the uprising was eventually over on May 15, 1943 the reaming people were either executed or sent to Treblinka to wait for death to come to them. Throughout the devastation of the Holocaust through 1941