Warsaw Ghetto
It includes official documents, underground publications, statistics on those who died, firsthand testimonies, ration cards used in the ghetto, medical prescriptions, even candy wrappers.
Ten sets of tefillin were found in the bunker, dug ahead of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, pointing to prayer quorums “underground and under the Nazis’ noses,” says Holocaust institute director.
“In this time of rising anti-Semitism and global crisis, the themes of resistance, resilience and hope are more important than ever,” said National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene artistic director Zalmen Mlotek and executive director Dominick Balletta.
Ash Sarkar expressed “solidarity” with those who spray-painted “free Gaza and Palestine, liberate all ghettos” on one of the last remaining parts of the Warsaw Ghetto wall.
Speaking with “Israel Hayom” on the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II, Andrzej Duda calls it “the most tragic day in the history of the Polish nation.” Regarding reparations, he says the issue “concerns all those who lost property, irrespective of their nationality.”
Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, chief rabbi of Chabad in Poland, will host some 100 Diaspora Jewish families of ghetto survivors to celebrate the Jewish festival of redemption.
“It is important for ambassadors from around the world to understand both the history of and contemporary life in Israel in order to be best informed on issues which come to their attention at the United Nations,” said American Zionist Movement president Richard Heideman.
