When the Jews attacked the armed Nazi Germans.
Exactly eighty years ago, thousands of Polish Jews imprisoned in a camp in Warsaw came out in open armed resistance against the Nazi Germans, knowing that Hitler’s forces would brutally crush this desperate attempt to liberate these Jews.
Special celebrations are being held in the Polish capital to mark the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Resistance. Apart from German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, the Israeli President also participated in these commemorative ceremonies.
Commemorating the resistance of the imprisoned Jewish population, special sirens were sounded in Warsaw, while the bells in the city’s churches continued to ring for a while.
Eighty years ago, at least 1,000 young people from a ghetto in the capital Warsaw took up arms against the oppression of Nazi German troops occupying Poland. Then the Nazi Germans imprisoned these Jews in this settlement. Polish peasants provided weapons to these Jewish youths who were imprisoned in poor conditions, but compared to the weapons of the Nazi German army, these weapons were like toys. This armed resistance was led by the Jewish resistance movement. The largest armed Jewish resistance against the Nazis began on April 19, 1943, and was brutally crushed.
The Nazi German secret police set fire to all the high-rise apartments in the ghetto soon after the resistance was launched by the Jewish community eager for freedom. The Nazi Germans brutally killed about thirteen thousand Jews who resisted, while the surviving Jews were transferred to the concentration camp of Treblinka in Poland.
This effort of Polish Jews during World War II is remembered as a resistance movement. That is why special commemorative events are organized on April 19 every year.
Special exhibitions are also organized on this occasion, in which the household goods, torn old clothes, torn shoes, broken dishes etc. and other items in the possession of these Jews at that time bring bitter memories of the terrible actions of the Nazi Germans. They do
Nazi German troops destroyed the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, and most of their belongings were buried under the rubble. When the Polish government started excavating the historic site last winter, archaeologists recovered a lot of Jewish belongings from the ruins.
The ghetto was established in Warsaw in 1940 after the Nazi Germans occupied Poland in 1939. It was the largest Jewish settlement in the occupied territories of Europe, which was constantly guarded by the Nazi Germans. 300,000 Jews were sent from this settlement to various concentration camps, where they were put to death in gas chambers.
Before World War II, Jews made up about 10 percent of Poland’s population of about 35 million. At that time, Jews made up more than 30 percent of the total population of Warsaw.
About three million Polish Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After World War II, Jewish survivors emigrated from the country because of anti-Semitism. Today, Poland is seen as a large Jewish cemetery
Nazi German troops destroyed the Warsaw ghetto in 1943, and most of their belongings were buried under the rubble. When the Polish government started excavating the historic site last winter, archaeologists recovered a lot of Jewish belongings from the ruins.
The ghetto was established in Warsaw in 1940 after the Nazi Germans occupied Poland in 1939. It was the largest Jewish settlement in the occupied territories of Europe, which was constantly guarded by the Nazi Germans. 300,000 Jews were sent from this settlement to various concentration camps, where they were put to death in gas chambers.
Before World War II, Jews made up about 10 percent of Poland’s population of about 35 million. At that time, Jews made up more than 30 percent of the total population of Warsaw.
About three million Polish Jews were killed during the Holocaust. After World War II, Jewish survivors emigrated from the country because of anti-Semitism. Today, Poland is seen as a large Jewish cemetery