On this day in history, the Bialystok Ghetto uprising began. In August 1943, the Nazis decided to destroy the Bialystok Ghetto. For five days, the Jews resisted, with the plan to join the partisans nearby. Unfortunately, the Nazis murdered hundreds of Jews during the resistance, but 100 of them managed to escape. Untimely, the Nazis also found a bunker where 72 fighters hid, and they killed all but one of the resistors. The deportations proceeded as scheduled, with thousands of Jews sent to Treblinka, Majdanek, and Auschwitz; The Nazis shot thousands more Jews in the forests surrounding the ghetto. The Soviets liberated Bialystok in August 1944.