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(Monday, January 18, 1943, 7:00 a.m. Central European Time; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — The first Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began today as Nazi soldiers began their second deportation from Warsaw’s Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Poland.

Video: 'Warsaw Ghetto Uprising' (Jan. 1943, at 9:08)

200 SS troops and another 800 auxiliaries arrived at the ghetto and began the roundup of people to be taken to the Treblinka concentration camp.

Video: 'Warsaw Ghetto Uprising' (Jan. 18, 1943, at 3:29)

Members of the Jewish resistance organization Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ZOB), led by Mordechai Anielewicz, armed with pistols, worked their way into the crowd of about 1,000 deportees, and, at a pre-arranged signal, emerged and began fighting the Germans.

After four days of fighting, the deportations would halt, temporarily.