April 19th marks the 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
At 12.00 pm in Warsaw you will hear alarm sirens in tribute to Those who fought during the Uprising.
On the 19th of April 1943 armed forces of the Nazi Germany entered the Warsaw Ghetto. In an act of resistance Jewish citizens stood up to the aggressor making it the first civic uprising in the occupied Europe. The defence collapsed on May 16th resulting in 13,000 Jews being killed and approximately 50,000 shipped to the death camps.
It is said that the last surviving leader of the uprising – Marek Edelman used to lay yellow flowers at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes. That’s why, to commemorate this day paper daffodils are handed out all around the city centre by volunteers.
- You can make a paper daffodil yourself. All you need is paper, glue and scissors!
The pattern is here: while the video instruction is available here. - To learn more you can visit the POLIN museum (Mordechaja Anielewicza 6).
- This year the Museum also encourages you to watch a film with English subtitles: “There Was No Hope”
