Commemoration of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Heroes
19.04.2021
On the occasion of the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on April 19, chargé d'affaires a.i. Mateusz Mońko and Deputy Head of Mission at the Israeli Embaasy David Antebi commemorated the heroes of the uprising at the monument of Holocaust Victims at the Venstre Kirkegård Jewish cemetery in Copenhagen.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out on 19 April, 1943. On the eve of Pesach, German troops, tanks and armored vehicles entered the ghetto. Several hundred members of the Jewish Combat Organization fought against them. The fighting lasted until 16 May, 1943 and ended in defeat for the insurgents. After the uprising, the Germans razed the ghetto to the ground.
The uprising in the Warsaw ghetto was the largest armed uprising of Jews during World War II and the first urban uprising in occupied Europe.
Source of information and graphics: Polin Museum of the History of Polish Jews.