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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

On the morning of April 19, 1943, SS forces advanced with the intention to liquidate the ghetto.  The Fighters had procured more weapons from the Polish Underground, but they knew they were not equipped for victory against overwhelming odds—but instead planned to die with honor.

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Jewish woman and children partisans in the forests near Pinsk.

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Partisan Stjepan Filipović shouting "Death to fascism, freedom to the people!" (a motto of the Yugoslavian partisan movement) moments before being hanged by German soldiers.

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Jewish partisans in a forest near the town of Bialystok, Poland.

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Sarah Fortis, a Greek Jewish partisan leader posing in a partisan uniform.

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A resistance fighter preparing a bomb on train tracks in France.

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Jerachmiel Berman, a Jewish member of the Lithuanian underground, photographed in the Kovno Ghetto.

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Abba Kovner visiting the building where the FPO (United Partisan Organization) had its headquarters in the Vilna ghetto. Photographed after the liberation.

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A German train sabotaged by Slovak partisans.

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