During World War II, Jews and other minority groups occupied ghettos- slum areas guarded by Nazis. Many Jewish and minority peoples died everyday due to disease, lack of sanitation, and hunger. July 1942, Heinrich Himmler, head of the Nazi paramilitary corps known as the Shutzstaffel (SS), stated that Jews be “resettled” to “labor camps”. However, it did not take long for the Jews to understand that deportation meant death in an extermination camp and the gossip spread like wild fire within the ghettos. Jewish Combat Organizations, or ZOBs, began to form and On April 19th to May 16th, 1943 residents of the largest Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, Poland revolted against deportations to concentration camps. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising inspired revolts
