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80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising where Jews staved-off deportation by Nazis


 

Rabbi Moshe Cohn, who heads the Jewish World Section of Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies, spoke at the L.A. Holocaust Museum on the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. His school produced the educational video below about their act of brave resistance and dignity.

   

In this interview with JooTube, Rabbi Cohn discusses the significance of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. He describes how the young Jewish people, aware of their limited survival chances and  despite their limited access to weapons, rebelled against the Nazi army for 29 days

Though ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the Germans from entering the ghetto, the Jewish people's strategic and brave fighting showed that even amidst oppression, they could unite and fight back. This revolt created an enduring legacy for Jewish people everywhere.

 

Rabbi Cohn explains the significance of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the new form of resistance it represented when compared to prior spiritual resistance. He describes how the young Jewish people, who were well aware that they had no chance of survival, decided to risk their lives in a rebellion that lasted 29 days against the mighty Nazi army, where they only had access to a few guns. 

Despite their Rebellion ultimately not being successful, it set a standard for Jewish people, especially those in Israel, who have an army to protect them and remind the world of the Jewish people's courage.

Though the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising lasted 29 days, it was longer than the entire Polish Army's defense of Germany in September 1939. The Jews in the ghetto had very few weapons, but they fought strategically and bravely, using Molotov cocktails and pistols against the German army's tanks and machine guns. 

 

Though they were ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the Germans from entering the ghetto, they showed that even in the face of oppression, Jewish people could unite and fight back. Mordecai Anielewicz, who led the revolt, wrote that he saw his dream of Jewish soldiers defending themselves physically in the ghetto come true, a dream that had laid dormant since the time of the Maccabees. 

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