On this day in 1942, the residents of the Lachwa Ghetto, in what is today Belarus, began what may have been the first armed uprising by a Jewish ghetto population against the Germans.
This day in Jewish history / The Jews rise up in Lachwa Ghetto
On September 3, 1942, the residents of the Lachwa Ghetto began what may have been the first armed uprising by a Jewish population against the Nazis.
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