The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: a photograph from the report by Jürgen Stroop to Heinrich Himmler from May 1943. Report title: The Jewish Quarter of Warsaw Is No More! Original photo caption: Forcibly pulled out of bunkers. Suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ─ captured Jews are led by German Waffen-SS troops to the assembly point for deportation. Photograph: IMAGO/Reinhard Schultz
To mark the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the presidents of Poland, Israel and Germany, Duda, Herzog and Steinmeier, will attend the state ceremony in Warsaw together. They will meet there with Marian Turski, the Polish-Jewish Auschwitz survivor and President of the International Auschwitz Committee, as well as Stanislaw Zalewski, Polish survivor of Auschwitz and further survivors of the German concentration and extermination camps.
During a working stay at the Auschwitz Memorial, Christoph Heubner, Executive Vice President of the International Auschwitz Committee said:
"The fact that the Presidents of Poland, Israel and Germany are together commemorating this death-defying uprising against the murderous world of the SS and the anti-Semitic hatred of the Nazis, is an encouraging political signal for the survivors of the Holocaust. It shows that learning from history and mutual understanding between people is possible. The courage and the message from the Ghetto Uprising Fighters extend far into our times and our present-day: dictatorships and dictators should never forget the courage, the anger and the strength of the beleaguered and the desperate."