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German soldiers arrest Jews during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. [LCID: 34050] — German soldiers arrest Jews during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Poland, May 1943.

The Warsaw ghetto uprising began on April 19, 1943, after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. By May 16, 1943, the Germans had crushed the uprising, deported surviving ghetto residents, and left the ghetto area in ruins.
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Members of a Jewish resistance group (Organisation Juive de Combat). [LCID: 31282] — Members of a Jewish resistance group (Organisation Juive de Combat). Espinassier, France, wartime.
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Jewish parachutist Hannah Szenes on her first day in Palestine. [LCID: 83591] — Hannah Szenes on her first day in Palestine. Haifa, Palestine, September 19, 1939.

Between 1943 and 1945, a group of Jewish men and women from Palestine who had volunteered to join the British army parachuted into German-occupied Europe. Their mission was to organize resistance to the Germans and aid in the rescue of Allied personnel. Hannah Szenes was among these volunteers.

Szenes was captured in German-occupied Hungary and executed in Budapest on November 7, 1944, at the age of 23.
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Jewish parachutist Haviva Reik before her mission to aid Jews in Slovakia during the Slovak national uprising. [LCID: 38090] — Photograph of Jewish parachutist Haviva Reik taken before her mission to aid Jews in Slovakia during the Slovak national uprising. Palestine, before September 1944.
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Three men walk together down the middle of a busy street. Each one is wearing a suit of a different color. — Three participants in the Treblinka uprising who escaped and survived the war. Photograph taken in Warsaw, Poland, 1945.

Pictured from left to right are: Abraham Kolski, Lachman and Brenner. After participating in the Treblinka uprising, they escaped from the camp and found temporary refuge in the nearby forest. Afterwards they hid with a Christian family until liberation.

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A group portrait featuring two rows of six people each. — A group portrait including survivors of the Sobibor killing center and participants in the Sobibor uprising. Poland, August 1944.
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Jewish partisans in Naliboki forest, near Novogrudok. [LCID: 76525] — Partisans in the Naliboki forest, near Novogrudok. They were from various fighting units including the Bielski group and escapees from the Mir Ghetto on guard duty at an airstrip in the Naliboki Forest. Poland, July 1944.
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A group of Jewish partisans in the Rudniki forest, near Vilna, between 1942 and 1944. [LCID: 04097] — A group of Jewish partisans in the Rudniki forest, near Vilna, between 1942 and 1944.
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Jewish partisans, survivors of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, at a family camp in Wyszkow forest. [LCID: 85452] — Jewish partisans, survivors of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, at a family camp in Wyszkow forest. Poland, 1944.
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Jewish homes in flames after the Nazis set residential buildings on fire in an effort to force Jews out of hiding during the Warsaw ... [LCID: 34068a] — Jewish homes in flames after the Nazis set residential buildings on fire in an effort to force Jews out of hiding during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Poland, April 19–May 16, 1943.
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SS and Police Leader Juergen Stroop interrogates two Jews arrested during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. [LCID: 35205] — SS and Police Leader Jürgen Stroop interrogates two Jews arrested during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Poland, April 19-May 16, 1943.
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Jewish resistance fighters captured by SS troops during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. [LCID: 46193] — Jewish resistance fighters who were captured by SS troops during the Warsaw ghetto uprising. Warsaw, Poland, April 19-May 16, 1943.

The original German caption reads: "These bandits offered armed resistance."
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Simone Schloss, a Jewish member of the French resistance, under guard after a German military tribunal in Paris sentenced her to ... [LCID: 37164] — Simone Schloss, a Jewish member of the French resistance, under guard after a German military tribunal in Paris sentenced her to death. She was executed on July 2, 1942. Paris, France, April 14, 1942.
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