On April 19, 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising broke out—the largest armed act of resistance by the Jewish population. At 12:00 noon, ceremonies were held at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw to commemorate the fighters and civilians who participated in this heroic uprising.
Representatives of Jewish communities, the Righteous Among the Nations, state and local government authorities, and cultural institutions participated in the commemorations. The Warsaw Ghetto Museum was represented by, among others, Director Albert Stankowski and Deputy Director for Research and Exhibitions Katarzyna Person.
Then, from the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes, the March of Remembrance set off, with participants laying flowers at memorial sites related to the Warsaw Ghetto.
"The majority supported the uprising. After all, humanity had agreed that dying with a weapon was more beautiful than without. So we complied with that agreement. By then, there were only two hundred and twenty of us left in the ŻOB. Could it even be called an uprising? The point was not to let ourselves be slaughtered when they came for us. It was simply about choosing how to die," Marek Edelman, the last commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, told Hanna Krall. "I led 400 people to their deaths... Those who went to the gas chambers behaved no less heroically than those who fought with weapons in their hands."
