Juergen Stroop News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its partners assume any responsibility for them. Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, In a sukkah in Har Nof, Jerusalem Sukkot 2008 the conversation abruptly turned to the uprising in the Warsaw ghetto. Was I not aware of how misleading the established history of the Warsaw ghetto struggle was? Did I not understand that the role of the Hashomer Hatzairnik Mordechai Anielewicz-...

Advertisement Stern-faced Nazi SS soldiers stare down the defiant Jews who dared to resist being sent to death camps under orders to 'liquidate' Poland's ghettos. Rare photos show men, women and children being lined up and herded off after fighting for nearly four weeks during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943.     The heroic resistance saw 13,000 Jews killed in fighting which also took the lives of 59 police officers and members of the feared SS.  The fightback was prompted by Nazi authorities' attempts to 'liquidate' the ghetto, which was part of the system they had imposed on occupie...