Anielewicz Bunker
Ulica Mila 18 (or 18 Mila Street in English) was the headquarters bunker of the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB) (Jewish Fighting Organisation), a Jewish resistance group in Warsaw Ghetto in Poland during World War II.
The bunker at 18 Mila Street was constructed by a group of underworld smugglers in 1943. The ŻOB arrived there by coincidence, and it became the tactical headquarters for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The smugglers who had built it helped the ŻOB as guides. On May 8th, 1943, three weeks after the start of the Uprising, when the bunker was attacked by the Nazis, there were 300 people inside. The smugglers surrendered, but the ŻOB command, including Mordechaj Anielewicz, the leader of the Uprising, stood firm. German and Ukrainian troops threw tear gas into the bunker to force the occupants out. Anielewicz, his wife and many of his staff committed suicide rather than surrender, though a few fighters managed to get out of a rear exit.
Although it is often claimed that Miła 18 was the last bunker in the Ghetto to fall, this was not the case. Schutzstaffel General Jürgen Stroop's men took 30 bunkers on May 12th alone.