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May 16, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
#onthisday, 1943, The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ends with Nazi officer, Jürgen Stroop, destroying Warsaw’s Great Synagogue.
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which began just a few weeks prior on April 19, 1943 ended with this brutal act. After several weeks of intense fighting between German military officials and Jewish Partisan + various Polish resistance groups, the uprising came to an end.
To tamper the uprising shortly after it started Heinrich Himmler sent in Jürgen Stroop, SS commander and police leader in German-occupied Poland. Stroop was sent in to replace SS-Oberführer Ferdinan von Sammern-Frankenegg given his inability to squander the Jewish rebellion.
Stroop was systematic in his approach and demanded that the whole Ghetto be leveled completely by bomb, blaze and building. After this took place, all remaining people left in the Ghetto were either murdered instantly or sent to death camps.
Stroop provided detailed reports, documenting the destruction so that German officials could be kept abreast of progress, moment by moment.
In the Nazi operation, a total of 1,026 Jews were caught, of whom 245 were killed, either in battle or while resisting.

Stroop singlehandedly blew up Warsaw’s Great Synagogue as a final act, which served as the world’s largest synagouge when it opened in 1878. Image
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