80th anniversary of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising 19 April © 2023

80th anniversary of the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising 19 April © 2023

On April 19, 2023, Warsaw widely celebrated the 80th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw Jewish Ghetto on April 19, 1943. At the invitation of the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda, I took part in these celebrations on April 19, 2023. The event was attended by the President of Israel and the President of the Federal Republic of Germany.

After the creation of the Warsaw Ghetto in October 1940, socio-political associations and illegal organizations of various types and numbers continued to operate on the territory of the ghetto.

On July 22, 1942, the Germans began the operation "Reinhard", during which, under the guise of "resettlement", the transportation of ghetto residents to the Treblinka concentration camp for extermination began. In total, in the period from July 22 to September 12, 1942, about 700 thousand people were taken out of the ghetto by the Germans.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an armed Jewish resistance to Nazi Germany's attempt to eliminate the remnants of the Jewish ghetto in occupied Poland during World War II. The uprising lasted from April 19 to May 16, 1943 and was brutally suppressed by the Nazis.