April 19, 2021
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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.
January 27, 2021
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Representatives of the Polish Association of the Righteous Among the Nations pay tribute in front of a monument dedicated to the victims of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
On this Holocaust Remembrance Day, we, sons and grandsons of survivors, write to protest the falsification of history being perpetrated in our name at the projected Museum of the Warsaw Ghetto, due to open in 2023 for the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The Museum’s published mission is “To disseminate knowledge about the life, struggle and extermination of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto and in other ghettos in German-occupied Poland.” But the museum proposes simply to abandon the true story of the ghetto in midstream.