The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was the largest single revolt by Jews during World War II. When German forces attempted to begin the final deportation of the ghetto's remaining 60,000 inhabitants to death camps, Jewish resistance groups (the ZOB and ZZW) launched an armed insurrection. Armed with only a few smuggled pistols and homemade Molotov cocktails, the resistance fighters held off the professional German army for nearly a month. Though the uprising was eventually crushed and the ghetto razed to the ground, it served as a powerful act of defiance and a symbol of human spirit against overwhelming tyranny. It inspired subsequent revolts in other ghettos and death camps, proving that even in the face of certain death, people would fight for their dignity.