Germany's Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Israel's Isaac Herzog will meet with Poland's President Andrzej Duda and attend a remembrance ceremony together when they visit Warsaw on Wednesday, according to a statement by the Polish President's Office.
The Warsaw Ghetto, established in the autumn of 1940, was the largest of all the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Europe during World War II. In the summer of 1942, a quarter of a million of its residents were sent to the Treblinka extermination camp.
A section of the historic wall of the Warsaw Ghetto at 62 Złota Street. Photo: Adrian Grycuk [CC BY-SA 3.0 pl (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en)]via Wikimedia Commons
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943 and lasted until May 16, was the first uprising in German Nazi-occupied Europe and the largest act of armed resistance by Jews in World War II. It is estimated that about 13,000 insurgents died in the ghetto during the revolt.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943 and lasted until May 16, was the first uprising in German Nazi-occupied Europe and the largest act of armed resistance by Jews in World War II. Photo: PAP/Tomasz Gzell
Some surviving Jewish combatants later fought in the Warsaw Uprising, launched by Poland's underground Home Army (AK) on August 1, 1944.
The Polish president in December 2018 paid tribute to the last surviving Warsaw ghetto fighter who died in Israel at the age of 94.
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Source: IAR, PAP
