Daffodils to commemorate the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Wreaths and flowers were laid at the Monument to the Heroes in the Polish capital on Saturday to mark the 82nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Today, the daffodil has become a symbol of commemoration.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 was the largest armed Jewish uprising during the Second World War. On the 19th of April, a group of young men led by Mordechai Anielewicz resisted and fought back Nazi troops who had entered the Warsaw Ghetto in an effort to deport its inhabitants to concentration camps.
In an interview with Euronews, Zofia Bojańczyk, coordinator of the Daffodil Campaign by the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, spoke about the importance of today's commemoration.
"The insurgents knew that they had no chance against the machinery of extermination that the Germans represented. So it was a fight for dignity, for a dignified death, without any hope of victory," Bojańczyk said.
Civilians being expelled from their homes after the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Photo from Jurgen Stroop's report from May 16, 1943. Wirtualny Sztetl
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943
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