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 * Timeline **
 * 1939
 * October 17, 1939: Jewish people could not sell merchandise to non-Jewish people without a permit. This shut down an entire market of the Jewish people's businesses.
 * November, 1939: Jewish bank accounts were limited to a maximum withdrawal of 250 Zolites. This limited the economic possibilities of the ghetto by controlling how much money was in the ghetto at one time.
 * November 23, 1939: A Nazi decree stated that all Jews above the age of 10 had to wear bands to differentiate themselves.
 * 1940
 * March 1940: Polish gangs attacked Jews.
 * Mid-November of 1940: After ordering all Jews in Warsaw to collect in a designated part of the city, the Germans sealed it off from the rest of the city with a 10-foot high wall topped with barbed wire. The Germans took radios away from them, and later they removed telephone lines, censored mail, and frequently confiscated incoming packages.
 * 1941
 * Typhus epidemic, which started in the synagogues and institutional buildings housing the homeless, decimated the ghetto.
 * By the end of the year, disease had killed more than 43,000 people (or ten percent) of the ghetto's population. Sewage pipes froze in the winter time, causing sanitation problems and easier spreading of disease.
 * Spring of 1941: German industries set up workshops in the ghetto, which operated with the use of forced Jewish labor. Most of these small factory operations were made to support the German war effort. Jews employed in them were saved from the first deportations to the death centers because of this.
 * 1942
 * July 20th, 1942: Nazis issued an order for "non-productive" elements to prepare for a "resettlement" program that would begin two days later. The order caused widespread panic throughout the ghetto, as Jews who didn't have work cards frantically tried to get them. Ordered to organize the deportations, the head of the Jewish council committed suicide.
 * Between July 20th and mid-September: The Nazis deported more than 300,000 Jews from the ghetto. Most of them were taken to the Treblinka death camp.
 * Fall of 1942: almost all the factions in the ghetto decided to resist future deportations. Each political group formed its own "battle group" which came under the central command of 24-year-old Mordecai Anielewicz.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1943
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">January 18, 1943: 1000 Jews were marching to a deportation when suddenly fighters fought the guards in hand to hand combat. The march ended and the group dispersed, saving the 1000 Jews from deportation. A few days later, Nazis surprised the Jewish fighters by suddenly deporting 6500 Jews. A fight began and a German police officer was badly injured and the planned mass deportation came to a halt. In his anger, Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the liquidation of the ghetto.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2000 Germans entered the ghetto armed with a tank, two armored cars, three light-anti-aircraft guns, one medium howitzer, heavy and light machine guns, flame throwers, rifles, pistols and grenades. The Nazis planned to clear the ghetto of all remaining 60,000 Jews in 3 days, just in time for Hitlers birthday on the 20 of April. 700-750 Jewish resistance fighters armed with what they had managed to stockpile (a few thousand grenades, as well as a few hundred rifles, revolvers and pistols and only two or three light machine guns) faced the Nazis.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">April 19: Fighting starts between The Germans and resistance fighters. After a few days of fighting, the Nazis began to burn the ghetto to the ground, block by block. People jumped from burning buildings that the Nazis ignited. People also tried to escape through the sewers, and the Nazis would blow up manholes and throw poison gas into them. Very few people managed to escape the ghetto after it was set on fire. Any prisoners were either shot on the spot or taken hostage to be sent to death camps.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">May 8: Anielewicz commited suicide, and the main ZOB bunker was captured by Nazis.The bunker, called Mila 18, was the last bunker to fall in the uprising.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">May 15: Germans knew that they had won. As a sign of victory, they blew up the sacred Tlomacki Synagogue.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the end: several thousand Jews had been buried in the debris, and more than 56,000 had been captured. About 30,000 of them were either immediately shot or transported to death camps. The remainder were sent to labor camps.

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