ENRS commemorates the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
This year April 19, the world will mark the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising – the first large-scale metropolitan uprising in Nazi-occupied Europe. The Uprising became an everlasting symbol of the resistance of Polish Jews against the Holocaust.
The main topic of this year’s celebration will be “non-indifference” which is especially important while the brutal war is still present over the Poland’s eastern border. Nearly 40 institutions, including Warsaw Ghetto Museum, Jewish Historical Institute, POLIN Museum of the History of the Polish Jews and The Social and Cultural Association of Polish Jews, announced a rich calendar of anniversary celebrations, which the ENRS is going to become a part of.
The topic of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has recurred more than once in ENRS initiatives. In 2018, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was one of the leading themes of Sound in the Silence project, a webinar on Jewish resistance to the Holocaust as exemplified by the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was organized in cooperation with the Jewish Historical Institute, and a detailed calendar of the Uprising is available on our platform Hi-story lessons. The fate of Elżunia (Elżbieta Ficowska), a six-month child taken out of the Warsaw Ghetto, is one of the twelve unique stories of rescue shown on our exhibition Between Life and Death, now hosted in Gdansk. These are just a few examples of the commemoration of this historical moment.
How can you get involved in the commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?
Even if you cannot be here in Warsaw for the official commemoration, there are several ways to commemorate.
- The simplest one is to make a daffodil, take a selfie for your social media profiles and use the hashtags: #RememberingTogether, #WarsawGhettoUprising.
Download the daffodil pattern here: daffodil pattern
Download daffodil instructions here: daffodil instructions
- Watch "There Was No Hope" , a film about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising produced by POLIN Museum. Please adjust the closed captions in YouTube for English subtitles.
- Read a short graphic novel about Marek Edelman .
- Explore the Holocaust gallery of POLIN Museum’s Core Exhibition.
Read more about the Remembrance Campaign at the organiser’s website: What is the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign?