(JEWISH GROUP) VIDEO: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration highlights women ghetto fighters
In Riverside Park in Manhattan, a simple slab of stone (called der shteyn in Yiddish) commemorates the Jewish fighters of the historic Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.
On Friday, April 18, close to 300 people gathered by der shteyn to honor the memory of the uprising, and the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust. The annual event is hosted by the Congress for Jewish Culture and several other Jewish organizations.
This year’s program highlighted the heroic acts by women, including young girls, in the resistance. Historian Lori Weintrob described in gripping detail some of these events, while Anita Gallers, a great-granddaughter of the Yiddish writer Jacob Pat, read an excerpt of his book Khanke about his niece who fought the Nazis.
Feygele Jacobs read a letter from the head of the Ghetto Fighters’ House Museum in Israel, expressing the dire importance of sharing with the world the self-sacrificing heroism of these fighters.
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The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
April 19, 1943 - May 16, 1943