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Thursday, April 18, 2013

APRIL 19TH, 70TH ANNIVERSARY: The ultimate emblem of resistance: the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | The Times of Israel

Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. (courtesy of the USHMM) 
Nazi liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto. 
(courtesy of the USHMM)

With the dead fell the ghetto walls, and in their place today stands the state of Israel.” – Meyer Barkai, ‘The Ghetto Fighters’

In the pantheon of Holocaust symbols, Anne Frank is the composite victim and the definitive killing site is Auschwitz. Though thousands of Jewish resistance acts punctuated the genocide, only the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising achieved the status as the ultimate emblem of resistance.........

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