The Jewish ghetto in Warsaw saw its resistance concluded after 28 days of combat.
In an operational report, Brigadier Juergen Stroop, the local SS commander, noted that the uprising commenced on 19 April, as SS, police, and Wehrmacht units, utilizing tanks and other armored vehicles, entered the ghetto to transport Jews to the railway station for their journey to concentration camps.
Jews made a stand against them using homemade explosives, rifles, small arms, and 鈥渋n one instance, a light machine-gun.鈥
He reported that his forces engaged in intense confrontations day and night with groups of approximately 20 or 30 Jews, comprising both men and women.
鈥淥n April 23, Himmler issued an order to carry out the thorough combing out of the Warsaw ghetto with utmost severity and relentless tenacity. Thus, I resolved to eradicate the entire Jewish residential area by igniting every block.鈥
The final battle culminated in the destruction of the Great Synagogue.
In 1940, the Nazis established the Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, cramming approximately 500,000 individuals into an area no larger than one square mile (2.6 sq km).