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80th Anniversary Of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemorated In Poland

April 19, 2023
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80th Anniversary Of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Commemorated In Poland

Front from right, Polish President Andrzej Duda, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, Israel's President Isaac Herzog, Michal Herzog, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Elke Buedenbender attend a 'Warsaw Ghetto Uprising' commemoration reception in Warsaw, Poland, Wednesday, April 19, 2023.

Presidents and Holocaust survivors and their descendants commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on Wednesday, April 19, 2023.

President of Germany, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, averred that the lessons of his own country’s aggression hold a lesson as Russia’s attack on Ukraine has “destroyed the foundations of our European security order.”

“You in Poland, you in Israel, you know from your history that freedom and independence must be fought for and defended. You know how important it is for a democracy to defend itself,” Steinmeier said at a ceremony alongside Presidents Isaac Herzog of Israel and Andrzej Duda of Poland.

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“But we Germans have also learned the lessons of our history. ‘Never again’ means that there must be no criminal war of aggression like Russia’s against Ukraine in Europe,” Steinmeier iterated.

The commemorations took place in front of the Memorial to the Ghetto Heroes where the fighting erupted, led by Presidents Isaac Herzog, Andrzej Duda and Frank-Walter Steinmeier.

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Polish President Andrzej Duda, right, and the President of Israel, Isaac Herzog.

The anniversary honors the hundreds of young Jews who took up arms in Warsaw in 1943 against the overwhelming might of the Nazi German army.

Poland, where Europe’s largest prewar Jewish population lived and which was invaded and subjected to mass death and destruction, carries out its responsibility of preserving sites like the ghetto and the Auschwitz death camp, while also honoring the massive losses inflicted on the entire nation.

About 6 million Polish citizens were killed during the war, about 3 million of them Jews and the others mostly Christian Poles.

Steinmeier Pleads For Forgiveness On Germany’s Behalf

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Polish President Andrzej Duda, left, welcomes German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right.

The German President, Frank-Walter Steinmeier once again begged forgiveness at the commemoration event.

“As German Federal President, I stand before you today and bow to the courageous fighters in the Warsaw ghetto. I bow to the dead in deep sorrow.”

Frank-Walter Steinmeier

“Dear President Duda, dear President Herzog, many people in your two countries, in Poland and in Israel, have granted us Germans reconciliation despite these crimes,” Steinmeier averred, calling that a “miracle of reconciliation” to be preserved into the future.

Some of those participating in Wednesday’s observances traveled from as far as Australia and the United States to honor those who perished, but also the rich Jewish civilization that is their heritage.

Many hold their own private ceremonies, paying tribute to those departed at the Jewish cemetery or at various memorials on the former grounds of the ghetto.

There are no surviving fighters still alive. Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander, died in 2009. He remained in Poland and helped keep alive the memory of the revolt in his homeland. Simcha Rotem, a fighter who smuggled others out of the burning ghetto through sewage tunnels, died in 2018 in Israel, where he settled.

The small number of elderly surviving witnesses today were mostly children at the time of the revolt.

The Germans invaded Poland in 1939 and the next year set up the ghetto, the largest of many in occupied Poland.

It initially held some 380,000 Jews who were cramped into tight living spaces, and at its peak housed about a half-million Jews. Disease and starvation were rampant, and bodies often appeared on the streets.

The Jewish resistance movement in the Warsaw ghetto grew after 265,000 men, women and children were rounded up in the summer of 1942 and killed at the Treblinka death camp. As word of the Nazi genocide spread, those who remained behind no longer believed German promises that they would be sent to labor camps.

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.

The uprising began when the Nazis entered the ghetto on April 19, 1943, the eve of the Passover holiday. Three days later, the Nazis set the ghetto ablaze, turning it into a fiery death trap, but the Jewish fighters kept up their struggle for nearly a month before they were brutally vanquished.

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