Jewish women fighters captured following the Nazi suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943. During the summer of 1942, most of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto were deported to Treblinka extermination camp. In January 1943, when the Germans resumed deportations, the Jewish Combat Organization staged armed resistance. On 19 April 1943, about 2,000 German soldiers entered the ghetto with tanks in order to liquidate it. They expected to quickly defeat the poorly armed Jewish insurgents, but instead the uprising, the largest act of Jewish resistance against the Holocaust, dragged out for four weeks. The Germans had to set the ghetto on fire, pump poison gas into bunkers, and blast the Jews out of their positions in order to deport them to Majdanek and Treblinka.