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Warsaw: Life and Death in the Ghetto which the Germans established there during WWII

January 19, 1943 . The new determination to resist deportation with force is put to the test. A Nazi armed force of over a thousand men enters the ghetto to round up 24,000 for deportation. They are met with force and at least 20 Germans are killed. The clashes continue through to January 22 when the Nazis, having killed 1000 and rounded up 5500, withdraw.


 

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