Barely a week from the start of World War II, German forces in the captured Polish town of Będzin burn down the synagogue and the surrounding homes, and kill dozens of the town’s Jews. Będzin would later become a ghetto for the survivors and for Jews from other areas, before they are all deported to the death camps. During the final deportations in August 1943 the Jews fought back, and most died fighting rather then at the gas chambers. The city square in Będzin is today dedicated to the heroes of the Jewish ghetto uprising.
