Warsaw ghetto uprising commemorated
Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2007 3:46 am
I commend these brave fighters for standing up against the illegal occupation of their country... of course, nowadays they would be called 'terrorists' for sure...
Warsaw ghetto uprising commemorated
Thu Apr 19, 7:16 PM ET
WARSAW, Poland - The last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising placed yellow daffodils on a granite memorial Thursday to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the start of the ill-fated, armed resistance.
Marek Edelman, shivering on a chilly spring day, walked arm-in-arm with his granddaughter from the stark monument for heroes of the uprising in downtown Warsaw to several other sites within the Nazi-era ghetto for Warsaw Jews.
On one of Edelman's stops, a group of teenagers sang Yiddish songs that roused the fighters who rose up on April 19, 1943 against Germany's attempts to liquidate the ghetto.
Edelman, who picked out the tunes, sang along softy.
In a separate ceremony, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and other officials placed wreaths at the monument to those killed in what was the first major act of civilian resistance against the Nazis in Poland during World War II.
They opted to fight their captors in the face of plans to exterminate the tens of thousands of Jews remaining in the ghetto, where Nazis had crowded more than 400,000 people in November 1940. The residents, outnumbered and outgunned, held off German troops for three weeks with homemade explosives and a cache of smuggled weapons.
Most of fighters were killed and the Nazis burned down the ghetto street by street.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_ ... nniversary
P.S. These fighters also killed numerous Jews who collaborated with the Germans, just gunned them down in their himes, or while they were eating at a cafe... because it had to be done!
Warsaw ghetto uprising commemorated
Thu Apr 19, 7:16 PM ET
WARSAW, Poland - The last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising placed yellow daffodils on a granite memorial Thursday to commemorate the 64th anniversary of the start of the ill-fated, armed resistance.
Marek Edelman, shivering on a chilly spring day, walked arm-in-arm with his granddaughter from the stark monument for heroes of the uprising in downtown Warsaw to several other sites within the Nazi-era ghetto for Warsaw Jews.
On one of Edelman's stops, a group of teenagers sang Yiddish songs that roused the fighters who rose up on April 19, 1943 against Germany's attempts to liquidate the ghetto.
Edelman, who picked out the tunes, sang along softy.
In a separate ceremony, Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and other officials placed wreaths at the monument to those killed in what was the first major act of civilian resistance against the Nazis in Poland during World War II.
They opted to fight their captors in the face of plans to exterminate the tens of thousands of Jews remaining in the ghetto, where Nazis had crowded more than 400,000 people in November 1940. The residents, outnumbered and outgunned, held off German troops for three weeks with homemade explosives and a cache of smuggled weapons.
Most of fighters were killed and the Nazis burned down the ghetto street by street.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070419/ap_ ... nniversary
P.S. These fighters also killed numerous Jews who collaborated with the Germans, just gunned them down in their himes, or while they were eating at a cafe... because it had to be done!
