Presidents and Holocaust survivors and their descendants are commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on Wednesday.
Anna Stupnicka-Bando, left, a Polish Christian honored for saving Jews, walks with Waclaw Kornblum, right, a Polish Holocaust survivor, at a ceremony for the burial of a"time capsule" on the grounds of the Warsaw Ghetto Museum in Warsaw, Poland, on Tuesday April 18, 2023. The time capsule contains memorabilia and a message to future generations.
Official commemorations will be attended by presidents Isaac Herzog of Israel, Frank-Walter Steinmeier of Germany and Andrzej Duda of Poland. The main event will take place in front of the Memorial to the Ghetto Heroes on the hallowed ground where the fighting erupted, with a visit later to Warsaw's Nozyk synagogue and a evening concert by the Polish-Israeli Youth Symphony Orchestra.
Avi Valevski, a professor of psychiatry from Israel whose father, Ryszard Walewski, a doctor who led a group of some 150 warriors in the revolt, visited Warsaw with his wife, describing it as “more than an emotional moment.” The Germans invaded Poland in 1939 and set up the ghetto in 1940. It was the largest of many ghettos across occupied Poland.
A small group of rebels began to spread calls for resistance, carrying out isolated acts of sabotage and attacks. Some Jews began defying German orders to report for deportation. “I’m a New Yorker but there is something that keeps drawing me back here,” said Barbara Jolson Blumenthal, whose parents survived the Warsaw Ghetto after a Pole helped them to escape and hide on the “Aryan” side of the city, while many other members of their families were murdered.
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