Uprising — Poland
Young Jewish fighters under Mordecai Anielewicz choose to die fighting in the Warsaw Ghetto rather than be transported to the death camps — the 2001 HBO film dramatises the April 1943 uprising.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began on 19 April 1943 when SS forces entered the ghetto to deport the remaining 56,000 inhabitants. Around 750 Jewish fighters with pistols and a handful of submachine guns held off 2,000 German troops for 27 days — the longest urban uprising against Nazi occupation in Europe. Anielewicz died in the command bunker on 8 May 1943.