People in the Polish capital are holding a day of commemorations on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. People in the Polish capital are holding a day of commemorations on the 75th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. President Andrzej Duda spoke during official commemorations at the Monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes and pay homage to the hundreds of Jewish fighters who took up arms in the 1943 rebellion against the German forces that occupied Poland during the Second World War. Police officers hold daffodils (Czarek Sokolowski/AP) The Warsaw Ghetto uprising broke out on April 19 1943, when about 750 young Jewish fighters armed with just pistols and fuel bottles attacked a much larger and heavily armed German force. Israeli dignitaries usually attend the major ghetto commemorations, but mostly remained home because the Warsaw anniversary this year coincides with major celebrations in Israel marking the 70th anniversary of the founding of that nation in 1948.

Source: Irish Independent April 19, 2018 10:41 UTC