Eighty years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the presidents of Poland, Israel and Germany marked the heroism of those who took part with a warning to the world against sowing hatred
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. "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 and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier attended the commemorations, which began with sirens sounding across the Polish capital.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. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
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