Years ago today, the start of the worst are ghetto uprising, where these jewish people began to resist the. and the speakers here, dana, i think you agree. we heard from the president of poland, israel and germany make the point. how significant this day is and one of the things that dana that really jumped out at me, and i m sure there are a lot of our viewers who watched the people who were here. where the very strong words from president steinmeier of germany and let me read katelyn polantz is from what president steinmeier of germany had to say , he said it is so necessary and yet so difficult to come here as a german and as the german president. he then added these words, the horrific crimes committed by germans. here fill me with deep shame, but at the same time it fills me with gratitude and humility that i can take part in this commemoration as the first german head of state ever to do so, you know, it was really significant. dan and i were
Future. and then as you and i know very often, they like to speak of the doing this. the doing that he was blunt president steinmeier. he spoke that the germans very responsibility for what happened . very blunt. it was very blunt and to hear him say that was a message. not just about accepting what happened historically, and apologizing and taking responsibility as you said, but also it s critical for the rise in anti semitism globally right now, particularly in the united states, where there is not just a rise in anti semitism, but holocaust denialism. well, here you had the president of germany. making clear that it happened and they were the reason for it. and so the question now is. how does the world continue to remember one of the ways is here in warsaw? as you mentioned wolf? we re right here inside. what
Personal meaning for both of them and their families. alex we re here just outside the polling museum. this is the museum that they built to remember the history of the jews of poland, and it s a very, very powerful scene and we were here . we were here today because they commemorated they remembered exactly 80 years ago . today the worst are ghetto uprising, where a group of jews who had been thrown into this warsaw ghetto and this is the land where the worst i gotta was. they were thrown in. they resisted. they fought the. it was a brutal situation, but a very heroic situation by those jews who were inside the worst are ghetto, and today we heard powerful words from the president of israel, poland and germany, president of germany was here. president steinmeier and he spoke so powerfully and personally about what this day means for germans. listen to this. our responsibility for the crimes of the past. and our responsibility for a common