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warsaw ghetto uprising  

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  • The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943 marks the best-known and best-documented act of collective Jewish resistance against the Nazi politics of extermination. It is not to be confused with the armed revolt of the Polish Home Army against the German occupation forces that started on August 1, 1944. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Warsaw Ghetto Uprising]

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