Timeline Sunday 16 May 1943

Events on Sunday 16 May 1943 3

• 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Jews resist Nazi deportations Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto rose up against Nazi deportations on April 19, 1943. The uprising lasted nearly a month before being crushed. It was the largest Jewish armed resistance of the Holocaust.
• 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Jewish fighters resist the deportation of the ghetto Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto took up arms against German forces that had come to deport the remaining inhabitants. The poorly armed fighters held out for nearly a month. The Germans burned the ghetto block by block, and the uprising ended when the Great Synagogue was blown up on 16 May.
• 1943 Dambusters raid RAF bouncing bombs breach dams in the Ruhr No. 617 Squadron of the RAF attacked dams in western Germany with Barnes Wallis's bouncing bombs. The raid breached the Möhne and Edersee dams and caused severe flooding and loss of life. Eight of the nineteen aircraft were lost.