Uprising
Based on the true story of the Jewish Fighting Organization, a
courageous band of youthful Polish guerrillas and freedom fighters who refused
to knuckle under to the Nazis during World War II. Led by schoolteacher Mordechai
Anielewicz, the organization comes into being as the Warsaw Jewish
ghetto is being systemically decimated and shipped off to the Treblinka death camp
by the German occupational forces. From April 19 to May 16, 1943, Anielewicz'
followers staged a valiant uprising, which - though ultimately unsuccessful in
stopping the Nazi "final solution" juggernaut - inflicted an enormous amount of
damage upon the enemy and enabled hundreds of Polish Jews to escape the gas ovens
and crematoriums. Much of the story is based upon the eyewitness testimony of
surviving freedom fighter Simha "Kazik" Rotem.
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