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German troops dig out Jewish defenders at the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto

On April 25, 1943, the seventh day of Jewish resistance at the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto continued on this Easter Sunday.  Stroop started relatively late, perhaps to give the men an opportunity to attend a religious service, at least in the case of the Army troops.  Stroop formed seven search/assault parties, each with seventy men, or about two platoons worth of troops per group.  Some of the bitterest fighting in the day would occur at 5 and 7 Mila Street amidst the burning houses.   SS-Panzergrenadier Siegfried Böckmann (gunshot wound, left upper ankle), 1st Company, 3rd SS Panzergrenadier Training and Replacement Battalion, SS-Rottenführer Fritz Krenzke (gunshot wound, left foot), SS Cavalry Replacement Detachment, SS-Scharführer Hugo Nieratschker, Sicherheitspolizei and Wachmann Jurko Kosatschok Trawniki camp were wounded in action.  (The Ghetto Men: The SS Destruction of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto April-May 1943)