Marek EdelmanToday marks the 67th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The fights opened under the leadership of Mordechaj Anielewicz and Marek Edelman. It was an attempt to stop the liquidation of the Ghetto, which the Nazis started on January 1943.
From the 70 000 Jews, who lived in the Ghetto when the Uprising started, 14 000 were killed, while the rest had been transported to concentration and extermination camps.
After days of uneven fights, the Nazi German occupier of Warsaw liquidated the Ghetto in May 1943. The Warsaw Ghetto was the largest of the ghettos which Nazi Germans started setting up in 1940 set up on Polish territory. It concentrated some 400 thousand people.
Today’s anniversary is commemorated by a march which started from the Monument to theHeroes of the Warsaw Ghetto and led through the sites of Jewish martyrdom in Nazi occupied Warsaw ,winding up at Umschlagplatz, the place where Nazis gathered Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto for deportation to extermination camps. (ab)