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Poland marks 74th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Xinhua, April 19, 2017 Adjust font size:

The Polish capital city of Warsaw held commemorative events on Wednesday, marking the 74th anniversary of the outbreak of Ghetto Uprising.

A commemorative ceremony and placing of wreaths were held in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes.

Preceding the wreaths placement, a children's choir sang the Ghetto insurgents' anthem. The Warsaw's Jewish History Museum POLIN organized "Daffodil" action for the fifth time. The volunteers were giving paper daffodil pins to the Warsaw citizens as a symbol of commemoration of the deceased.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out on April 19 of 1943 in the final phase of the ghetto's liquidation commenced by the Nazi Germans few months earlier, aimed at deporting the remaining Jews to concentration camps.

It was a symbolic act which lasted until May 16. The poorly armed fighters of the Jewish Combat Organization (ZOB) and the Jewish Military Union (ZZW) fought against SS and Wehrmacht soldiers.

It was estimated that about 6,000 insurgents died in the fighting. Survivors were mostly deported to concentration camps, while the remains of ghetto were razed to the ground.

The Warsaw ghetto was established on October 12 of 1940. At that time, a German decree required all Polish Jews from Warsaw to move into a designated area. Endit