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On April 19, 1943, Michael stood up against the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. 82 years later, we share his story and remember the bravery of those who fought against the Nazis. | Israel Defense Forces

26K views · 631 reactions | On 22 July 1942, the eve of Tisha B'Av (Fast of Av), the Germans began the Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto. By 21 September more than 265,000 Jews had been deported to the Treblinka death camp and murdered. Listen to Holocaust survivors Halina Birenbaum, Masha Putermilch, and Yosef Charny describe the mass deportations from the Warsaw ghetto in the summer of 1942. | Yad Vashem: World Holocaust Center, Jerusalem | Facebook

These photographs show the streets of Warsaw, and the ruins and flames over the Warsaw Ghetto. They were taken in April-May of 1943 during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, as the Nazis began burning the ghetto block by block. The photographs by Rudolf Damec, a Polish man living in Warsaw, were rediscovered just a few years ago by his granddaughter. On April 19, we will join the POLIN Museum (Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich POLIN) by wearing daffodils as a symbol of #RememberingTogether in honor of tho