Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemoration highlights women ghetto fighters

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 hig…

More than a thousand people attended yesterday the central event in commemoration of Holocaust and Heroism Day, 82 years after the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto, organized by the IADD and the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires. At the beginning, the secretary general of the Argentine Episcopal Conference, Monsignor Raúl Pizarro, accompanied by the interfaith secretary, Alberto Zimerman, took the stage to hold a minute of silence in memory of Pope …