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During World War II, the Nazis set up 1,000 ghettos around Europe, herding Jewish residents into them.
The largest was in Warsaw, where some 400,000 Jews in lived in squalor in a 1.3-square-mile area.
Resistance fighters in Warsaw, more than one-third of them women, launched the largest ghetto revolt of the war on April 19, 1943, inspiring similar rebellions across Europe.
After German dictator Adolf Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939, Nazis began segregating millions of Jews in Eastern Europe into sections of towns and cities designated ghettos, eventually stripping inhabitants of their belongings and rights and sealing them in with barricades and armed guards.
(JTA) — They hid revolvers in teddy bears and dynamite in their underwear. They learned how to make lethal Molotov cocktails and fling them at German supply trains. The girls
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