Eyewitness Accounts From the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On this day in 1943 (that year the eve of the great Jewish feast of Passover), a group of Jews locked up in the Nazis’ hellish Warsaw Ghetto began a last desperate, heroic rebellion against their murderous captors.

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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was not successful in a material sense — nearly all of its soldiers died either in the uprising (13,000) or the gas chambers (57,000). But the Germans found it a difficult task to conquer the Jewish freedom fighters, ill-equipped as they were, and the heroism of the Warsaw Ghetto still continues to inspire people today, especially as Jews once again face hatred, terrorism, and persecution in many countries.

One of the eyewitnesses to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was teenager Mary Berg,

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