...1943, Nazi troops suppressed a nearly month-long uprising by Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. Approximately a half-million women, children, and men had been kept for 3 years in a part of the city smaller than 1 square mile. The uprising had begun when Nazis attempted to deport some residents to concentration camps. An estimated 40,000 Jews were killed in reprisal for th uprising. (Photo of Nazis detaining residents during the uprising, part of an album admitted into evidence before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, courtesy of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.)...2005 (just 2 years ago), the Kuwaiti parliament voted to extend the franchise to Kuwaiti women. Eleven months later, they would cast votes for the 1st time.
