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The Warsaw Jewish Ghetto Uprising “was the first such uprising in occupied Europe”, writes the daily on the 70th anniversary of events it considers as part of both Jewish and Polish patriotic tradition.
Expected to fail within a day, 500-750 insurgents put up fierce resistance against some 5000 German troops and fought a hopeless battle that lasted until May 16. In the aftermath of the uprising, over 56,000 people were killed or deported to Nazi death or concentration camps.
The 70th anniversary of the Uprising will be celebrated this Friday by the opening of the Museum the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and a series of ceremonies. And Gazeta Wyborcza quotes a poem by Władysław Broniewski :
Let this be carved as in granite forever in Polish tradition : Our common home has been trampled one common foe we both face / Auschwitz and Dachau unite us and every street execution / And every bar in each prison and each nameless resting place.
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