Whoever lives to see tomorrow will also see the dawn… The last battles in the ghetto
The Germans' destruction of the Tłomackie Synagogue is considered the symbolic end of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. In a report prepared for his superiors, Jürgen Stroop described this act as the crowning achievement of the pacification mission of the uprising and the Jewish quarter. The explosion of explosives, planted by sappers under one of the most distinctive buildings of prewar Jewish Warsaw, had no direct impact on the situation in the ghetto ruins. A group of Jewish insurgents still remained there, fighting the Germans. […]