Remembering the 80th Anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Presidents, Holocaust survivors, and their descendants commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with a sense that the responsibility for carrying on the memory of the Holocaust is passing from the witnesses to younger generations. Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, said the lessons of his own country’s aggression hold a lesson as Russia’s attack on Ukraine has “destroyed the foundations of our European security order.” The anniversary honors the hundreds of young Jews who took up arms in Warsaw in 1943 against the overwhelming might of the Nazi German army.