Judaica - 40 years for warsaw ghetto uprising medal - 1983 - 70 mm

Judaica - 40 years for warsaw ghetto uprising medal - 1983 - 70 mm This medal has been struck to commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of the WWII Warsaw Ghetto uprising and Jewish combat organization (ZOB)This medal has been struck to commemorate the  anniversary of the liberation of the WWII Warsaw Ghetto uprising and Jewish combat organization (ZOB) The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Yiddish: אױפֿשטאַנד אין װאַרשעװער געטאָ; Polish: powstanie w getcie warszawskim; German: Aufstand im Warschauer Ghetto) was the 1943 act of Jewish resistance that arose within the Warsaw Ghetto in German-occupied Poland during World War II, and which opposed Nazi Germany's final effort to transport the remaining Ghetto population to Treblinka extermination camp. The most significant portion of the rebellion took place from 19 April, and ended when the poorly armed and supplied resistance was crushed by the Germans, who officially finished their operation to liquidate the Ghetto on 16 May. It was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II. The Jewish Combat Organization (Polish: Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa, ŻOB; Yiddish: ייִדישע קאַמף אָרגאַניזאַציע; it is also often translated to English as the Jewish Fighting Organization) was a World War II resistance movement, which was instrumental in engineering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.[1] ŻOB took part in a number of other resistance activities as well. Notably, a second Jewish resistance organization called the Jewish Military League (Polish: Żydowski Związek Wojskowy, ŻZW), formed primarily of former officers of the Polish Army in late 1939—and operating side by side—was at least equally instrumental in the Jewish armed struggle.