Morgan Lewis | @lewislettery
In memory of those who fought and were killed during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. May their bravery be a lesson and their memory be a blessing.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising began on April 19th, 1943, after German troops and police had entered the Jewish Ghetto to deport its inhabitants. It lasted until May 16, 1943, when the Germans had crushed the uprising and left the ghetto area in ruins. 13.000 Jews died during the unequal fight, and surviving residents were later deported to concentration camps or killing centers. For most of them, their part in the uprising was not about if, but how they would die. (As Marek Edelman said, their reason to fight was “to pick the time and place of our deaths"). It was the first significant urban revolt against German occupation in Europe.