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April 19, 2021
By JANEK SKARZYNSKI/Getty Im.
Members of the Polish Parliament pay tribute in front of the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes dedicated to the victims of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw, on January 27, 2021.
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 Warsaw is a symbol of Jewish struggle and resistance.
That struggle was not confined to the ghetto, nor to Warsaw, nor even to Poland, and it did not end with the uprising.