The presidents of Poland, Germany and Israel, Andrzej Duda, Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Icchak Herzog lit candles on Wednesday, on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, at Warsaw’s Nożyk Synagogue, reported the KPRP.
The presidents also unveiled a plaque commemorating the visit of the Chief Rabbi of Palestine to Nożyk Synagogue in 1946.
At Nożyk Synagogue in Warsaw, Presidents Andrzej Duda, Frank Walter-Steinmeier and Isaac Herzog light memorial candles on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The President’s Office posted this on Twitter.
Icchak Herzog emphasized that he came to Nożyk Synagogue as the president of Israel and “the son of a family with roots all over Poland, with the same prayer as his great-grandfather, (with prayer) El Malei Rachamim – in memory of our murdered brothers .”
He emphasized that there were almost 3.5 million Jews in Poland on the eve of World War II, but when “the Nazi monster of destruction came to Poland, they were wiped out, eliminated, and with them a great history of several generations.”
Nożyk Synagogue is a remnant of this glorious past history
– emphasized Herzog in a speech at the Synagogue quoted in a Twitter post.
Celebrating the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
At noon in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw with the participation of m.in. Andrzej Duda, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Icchak Herzog, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, representatives of the Polish government, Jewish, military and clergy, the main celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising took place.
80 years ago, on April 19, 1943, an uprising began in the Warsaw Ghetto, which went down in history as the greatest act of resistance to the Holocaust. Emanuel Ringelblum, the chronicler of the ghetto, wrote of the struggle motivated by honour, commanding the Jews not to be “led without will to slaughter”.
It was the first urban uprising against the Germans in occupied Europe, an act of a symbolic nature given the slim chance of success. In an unequal battle that lasted almost a month, the poorly armed fighters of the Jewish Combat Organization and the Jewish Military Union opposed SS, Wehrmacht, security police and auxiliary formations. During that time, the Germans razed the ghetto to the ground and methodically burned down house after house. For the Germans, blowing up the Great Synagogue at ul. Tlomackie. However, fighting by individual groups continued through May and June.
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Source: wPolityce