APRIL 19, 1943 THE WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING….AND SEVENTY YEARS LATER
Poland’s highest authorities on Friday paid homage to the Jewish fighters who rose up 70 years ago against the German occupiers in what is known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. President Bronislaw Komorowski led tributes at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in honor of the first and largest rebellion against the Germans during World War II. Also present were two survivors of the fighting, Simha Rotemand Havka Folman Raban; and many other dignitaries.
On 19 April 1943, 750 poorly armed Jews began armed resistance to the German forces, who were sending ghetto residents to death camps. The revolt was crushed in May, and the ghetto was razed to the ground, its residents killed.
“The Nazis made a hell on earth of the ghetto,” Komorowski said in a speech. “Persecuting the Jews appealed to the lowest of human instincts.”
70 YEARS LATER:
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