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==ŻOB resistance to the second deportation==
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On 18 January 1943, the Nazis began a second wave of deportations. The first Jews the Germans rounded up included a number of ŻOB fighters who had intentionally crept into the column of deportees. Led by [[Mordechai Anielewicz]] they waited for the appropriate signal, then stepped out of formation, and fought the Nazis with small arms. The column scattered and news of the [[Jewish Military Union|ŻZW]] and ŻOB action quickly spread throughout the ghetto. During this small deportation, the Nazis only managed to round up about 5,000 to 6,000 Jews.<ref name="USHMM" />

The deportations lasted four days during which the Germans met other acts of [[resistance movement|resistance]] from the ŻOB. When they left the ghetto on 22 January 1943, the remaining Jews regarded it as a victory, however [[Israel Gutman]], a member of the ŻOB who subsequently became one of the leading authors on Jewish Warsaw wrote, "It [was] not known [to the Jews] that the Germans had not intended to liquidate the entire ghetto by means of the January deportations." However, Gutman concludes that the "[January] deportations... had a decisive influence on the ghetto's last months."