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title: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
author: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
source: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20046/warsaw-ghetto-uprising/
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updated: 2025-02-17
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# Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

_Authored by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum_

## Image File

[![Warsaw Ghetto Uprising](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/20046.png)](https://www.worldhistory.org/uploads/images/20046.png)

## Image Caption

During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April-May 1943), SS and SD officers force a group of Jews to leave their shelter. Second from the right, pointing a submachine gun at a Jewish boy holding his hands above his head, is SS-Rotenfuerer Josef Bloesche.

The Jews in the photograph were subsequently forced to march to the Umschlagplatz, the holding areas next to railway stations, before they were deported to Nazi concentration camps.

The photograph originates from the Stroop Report, an album commissioned by Higher SS and Police Leader Friedrich Wilhelm Kreuger to gift to [Heinrich Himmler](https://www.worldhistory.org/Heinrich_Himmler/) to celebrate the successful suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the liquidation of the ghetto (1943). Two copies of the album were presented as evidence at the [Nuremberg trials](https://www.worldhistory.org/Nuremberg_Trials/). (National Archives and Records Administration, College Park)

## Cite This Work

### APA
Museum, U. S. H. M. (2025, February 17). Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. *World History Encyclopedia*. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20046/warsaw-ghetto-uprising/>
### Chicago
Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial. "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising." *World History Encyclopedia*, February 17, 2025. <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20046/warsaw-ghetto-uprising/>.
### MLA
Museum, United States Holocaust Memorial. "Warsaw Ghetto Uprising." *World History Encyclopedia*, 17 Feb 2025, <https://www.worldhistory.org/image/20046/warsaw-ghetto-uprising/>.

## License & Copyright

[Original image](https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1088110) by **United States Holocaust Memorial Museum**. Submitted by [Scarlett Hart](https://www.worldhistory.org/user/scarletthart/ "User Page: Scarlett Hart"), published on 17 February 2025. The copyright holder has published this content under the following license: [Public Domain](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain). This item is in the public domain, and can be used, copied, and modified without any restrictions. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.