One of the last surviving members of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance has told CNN the world must never forget the bravery of those who stood up to the Nazis, 80 years after World War II’s largest Jewish uprising.
On April 19, 1943, a group of Polish Jews fought back against their German occupiers in what became known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The fighters, though small in number and lacking in resources, dared to defy the odds. While the uprising lasted just a month, it is remembered today as a heroic act of Jewish defiance during the Holocaust.
Established by the Germans in October 1940, the Warsaw Ghetto was the largest Jewish ghetto in German-occupied Europe. About 400,000 Jews were sealed off from the rest of the Polish capital behind a high wall topped with barbed wire.
