After the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was crushed in 1943 , Rabbi Shapira was taken to the Trawniki work camp near Lublin . Although offered the opportunity to escape from the concentration camp , he apparently refused . Following the Jewish uprising in the Treblinka death camp ( August 2 , 1943 ) and in Sobibor extermination camp ( October 14 , 1943 ) , there was increasing concern among the Nazi authorities that there would be further outbreaks of violence at other concentration camps . For this reason , Aktion Erntefest ( Operation Harvest Festival ) was launched . During this operation , carried out on November 3 , 1943 , all the remaining Jews in Trawniki , including Rabbi Shapira , were shot to death
Aktion Erntefest
Aktion Erntefest
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira