The Nation that got up from the ashes of the Holocaust ✡ by: Ambassador Samantha Power ★ 28th United States Ambassador to the United Nations. ________________________________________ On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Jewish ghetto received word of an impending deportation and within 15 minutes the resistance forces were at their positions. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising begins. The Nazis had planned to liquidate the ghetto within three days. The Jews bitterly resisted for 27 days. The uprising led by 24 year-old Mordechai Anielewicz was a revolution in Jewish history. Remember these heroes! Photo: Jewish resistance fighters captured by SS troops during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: US Holocaust Memorial Museum. A. Smith....
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