Sonderkommando uprising October 1944

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:historical_event
gptkbp:aftermath public executions of captured participants
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Auschwitz_Sonderkommando_revolt
gptkbp:cause planned extermination of Sonderkommando prisoners
gptkbp:country gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:date 7 October 1944
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Sonderkommando uprising October 1944
gptkbp:location gptkb:Auschwitz_II-Birkenau
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Henryk_Tauber
gptkb:Rosa_Robota
gptkb:Zalmen_Gradowski
gptkbp:participants gptkb:SS_guards
gptkb:Sonderkommando_prisoners
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Holocaust
gptkb:Auschwitz_concentration_camp
Jewish resistance during the Holocaust
gptkbp:result crematorium IV destroyed
uprising suppressed
gptkbp:significance largest and only organized revolt by Sonderkommando at Auschwitz
gptkbp:victim approximately 451 Sonderkommando killed
3 SS guards killed
gptkbp:weapon axes
stones
homemade explosives
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Birkenau_concentration_camp
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7