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Fast Forward Warsaw Ghetto Uprising’s 80th anniversary remembered with daffodils, 3 presidents and an 11th commandment against ‘indifference’
For the first time, the presidents of Germany, Israel and Poland came together for a ceremony to commemorate the fighters, none of whom are alive today
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Culture His family died in the Warsaw ghetto — in these paintings, he honored their fight
'These faces don't let me rest,' Maurice Mendjizky told a friend
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Forverts in English 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — how to commemorate it
There will be a ceremony honoring the ghetto fighters in Riverside Park as well as a recording of it provided right afterwards.
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Opinion To memorialize their salvation, survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto built a sewer
The Warsaw Ghetto Survivor’s Memorial is designed to look like a sewer — once the source of weapons, of food, of information for Jews stuck in the ghetto.
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Community On the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising anniversary, honor the resistance you never heard of
April 19, 2021, is the 78th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, and a good time to take aim at the myth that Jews went “like sheep to the slaughter.” Warsaw stands alongside Auschwitz as a symbol of the Holocaust: As Auscwhitz is an eternal condemnation of the perpetrators and all they stood for, so…
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Culture Attention Gina Carano: Jews weren’t passive, ‘gentle’ victims. They were fighters too.
Say what you will about Gina Carano, she’s a fighter. The ousted “Mandalorian” actor, who began her career in mixed martial arts before pivoting to drama (with mixed results) made this point clear on Sunday in a YouTube interview with right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro, her first since being fired for invoking the Holocaust in a…
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Community 75 Years Later, A New Curriculum For The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation (JPEF) and the Sigi Ziering Institute of the American Jewish University held private screenings in Los Angeles and New York of the critically acclaimed film Uprising to coincide with the re-release of a curriculum about one of the most important feats of resistance during the Holocaust. Jon Avnet I was…
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