The final liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto began on April 19, 1943, when the SS forces and German police entered the ghetto under the command of SS General Jurgen Stroop. The Jews, who obtained prior information about the operation, went underground and some of them turned to armed resistance. The campaign to wipe out the ghetto continued until May 16, and ended when the Great Synagogue was blown up. During the operation, at least one photographer accompanied Stroop’s headquarters, and he took some 115 photographs.
![Jews captured during the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto are gathered at the Umschlagplatz (transfer point) prior to deportation to a death camp](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_100.jpg?itok=P8BV-Oem)
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![Jews captured during the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto are gathered at the Umschlagplatz (transfer point) prior to deportation to a death camp](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_100.jpg?itok=rZcJ312b)
![Waffen SS soldiers with a Jew who was captured during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_111.jpg?itok=RcdWDvMH)
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![Waffen SS soldiers with a Jew who was captured during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_111.jpg?itok=LJrtDbSw)
![Waffen SS soldiers remove Jews from a building where they had taken refuge, Warsaw ghetto](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_112.jpg?itok=M6P2Vrq8)
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![Waffen SS soldiers remove Jews from a building where they had taken refuge, Warsaw ghetto](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_112.jpg?itok=OIa32EPj)
![Jews captured during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising being taken to the Umschlagplatz (transfer point)](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_115.jpg?itok=uzleqVI9)
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![Jews captured during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising being taken to the Umschlagplatz (transfer point)](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_115.jpg?itok=SNsC8o42)
![Stores that were destroyed during the bombardment of the Warsaw ghetto](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_12.jpg?itok=oruJLYQu)
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![Stores that were destroyed during the bombardment of the Warsaw ghetto](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_12.jpg?itok=gpo6nQ3H)
![Building in flames inside the Warsaw ghetto, as viewed from the Aryan side](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_47.jpg?itok=dErweYL0)
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![Building in flames inside the Warsaw ghetto, as viewed from the Aryan side](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_47.jpg?itok=lITmAhHa)
![German sappers assigned to blow up bunkers where Jews were hiding, together with Jews who had been removed from one of the bunkers in the Warsaw ghetto. 8 May 1943 (estimated)](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_50.jpg?itok=OX_SXIFa)
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![German sappers assigned to blow up bunkers where Jews were hiding, together with Jews who had been removed from one of the bunkers in the Warsaw ghetto. 8 May 1943 (estimated)](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_50.jpg?itok=X4fdUPRp)
![Two members of a Ukrainian militia unit stand opposite the corpses of Jews killed during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_59.jpg?itok=vf6VMwXR)
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![Two members of a Ukrainian militia unit stand opposite the corpses of Jews killed during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_59.jpg?itok=0O4fCAyQ)
![A Jew attempts to escape a burning building, Warsaw ghetto](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_66.jpg?itok=O_o4_VO-)
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![A Jew attempts to escape a burning building, Warsaw ghetto](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_66.jpg?itok=7z3PeamG)
![Shelled-out remains of a building bombarded during the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_96.jpg?itok=XuUCNZVb)
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![Shelled-out remains of a building bombarded during the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_96.jpg?itok=XOM3MYZY)
![Waffen SS soldier guards Jews captured during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/main_image_1block/public/2807_98.jpg?itok=uvlj3PIj)
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![Waffen SS soldier guards Jews captured during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising](https://www.yadvashem.org/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2807_98.jpg?itok=WyNa0lCc)