81st anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Written by: Jewish Historical Institute
81 years ago, on April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began. It was the largest act of armed Jewish resistance during World War II and the first urban uprising against the Germans in occupied Europe.
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As every year, employees of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute took part in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign organized by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and handed out paper daffodils to passers-by as a sign of remembrance of the events of April 1943.

At noon, celebrations commemorating the anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising took place at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw.

The celebrations were attended by, among others: representatives of state and local government authorities, the diplomatic corps, Jewish organizations and cultural institutions, as well as members of the Jewish community, Righteous Among the Nations, and residents of Warsaw.

The ceremony, led by Andrzej Ferenc, began with the song Zog nit keyn mol (Yiddish: Never say) performed by the Kameleon Choir of the District Mokotów. Then, rabbis Michael Schudrich, Shalom Dov Ber Stambler and Yitzhak Rapoport said a prayer for the dead, after which the audience heard two more songs performed by the choir: Warszawo ma (Polish: O, my Warsaw) and Ani ma’amin (Hebrew: I believe).

Wreaths were laid at the monument by, among others, Marshal of the Polish Senate Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska and Deputy Speaker of the Polish Sejm Włodzimierz Czarzasty. Director of the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute Michał Trębacz laid a wreath together with the president of the Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland, Piotr Wiślicki, and the director of the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Zygmunt Stępiński.

The ceremony was organized by the Social and Cultural Association of Jews in Poland.

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