POLAND-WARSAW-WARSAW GHETTO ANNIVERSARY

POLAND, Warsaw: An elderly man look on at the Ghetto Heroes Monument in Warsaw, Poland on April 19, 2016, on the 73rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.Members of the state and local governments, ambassadors, as well as those who are Righteous Among Nations attended the anniversary. The ceremony took place at the spot of the first armed clashes in 1943. The uprising started when Jewish residents of the ghetto refused surrender to the Nazi police commander. The entire ghetto was burned and the clashes ended on May 16. An estimated 13,000 people in the ghetto were killed in the revolt.