From Reuters:
“Poland marks 80th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising”
Eighty years on from the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising - the largest Jewish revolt against Nazi Germany during World
War II - Poland marked the heroism of those who took part with a warning to the
world against sowing hatred.
(People attend an event on the
occasion of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto
Uprising in front of the Warsaw Ghetto monument in Warsaw, Poland, April 19,
2023.)
In 1940, German Nazi occupiers
corralled over 400,000 Jews into a small section of the Polish capital Warsaw;
most were then sent to camps to be killed or died from the conditions within
the ghetto, but on April 19, 1943 hundreds took up arms. Their fight against
heavily armed German troops to try to stop the transports to the death camps
ended on May 16, when the Germans razed the ghetto to the ground. An estimated
13,000 Jews were killed.
(Polish President Andrzej Duda speaks
on the occasion of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising which is attended by his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda, German
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier along with his wife Elke Budenbender and
Israeli President Isaac Herzog along his wife Michal Herzog, in front of the
Warsaw Ghetto monument in Warsaw, Poland, April 19, 2023.)
"Anyone who sows hatred, anyone
who tramples on people, tramples on the graves of the heroes of the Warsaw
Ghetto, tramples on the graves of murdered Jews, but also of those who
helped," said Polish President Andrzej Duda.
(Israeli President Isaac Herzog
speaks at an event on the occasion of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary
of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which is attended by his wife Michal Herzog,
Polish President Andrzej Duda along with his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda, German
President Frank-Walter Steinmeier along with his wife Elke Budenbender, in
front of the Warsaw Ghetto monument in Warsaw, Poland, April 19, 2023)
Israeli President Isaac Herzog and
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier attended the commemorations, which
began with sirens sounding across the Polish capital. "The heroism of the
resistance and the rebels and the imperative to remember that terrible chapter
of history... offer a platform for important dialogue between Poland and Israel
and for the advancement of friendship between our peoples," said Herzog.
(German President Frank-Walter
Steinmeier, Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Polish President Andrzej Duda
attend an event on the occasion of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of
the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, in front of the Warsaw Ghetto monument in Warsaw,
Poland, April 19, 2023.)
Steinmeier said that "every
crime that the Germans committed should have a place in our memory."
As in previous years, volunteers
handed out paper daffodils on the streets of Warsaw. The daffodil has become a
symbol of the uprising as Marek Edelman, the last surviving leader of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, used to receive a bouquet of yellow daffodils from an
anonymous person every year on April 19. He would lay them at the Monument to
the Ghetto Heroes in memory of those who fought and died. Organisers are giving
out 450,000 paper daffodils, as this was the number of people in the ghetto
when its population was at its peak.
^ It is nice to see that for the 80th
Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that German, Polish and Israeli
Presidents were in Warsaw to honor the Men, Women and Children who participated
during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ^
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