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77 years ago fighters of The Jewish Combat Organization and the Jewish Military Union started took to arms against the German invaders in the Warsaw Ghetto. The resistance was prepared, initiated and led by no more than 700 people confined behind the surrounded by walls area of several streets, with little support from the outside. What distinguishes the struggle from other ghettos and camps were the Jews were placed, is the fact that it lasted the longest and was the best prepared organised military action. The act of destruction of the Great Synagogue of Warsaw 16 May 1943 is consider as a symbolic end of the fighting.

The uprising began at the time when most of the ghetto’s inhabitants had been already dead. The Jewish community of 370 thousand, who in June 1942 was made up by the Warsaw and nearby towns and villages' orthodox and assimilated Jewish civilians population, former Polish Army soldiers of Jewish origin, who were stripped of prisoner-of-war status, had been already killed. As a result of the liquidation action carried out by the Germans in the summer and autumn of 1942, most of the ghetto population had lost their lives in the Treblinka extermination camp. Among the remaining 60 thousands, only a small number had a capacity to fight. And it was these ones who started the uprising about which Marek Edelman said: "We couldn’t win, but we wanted to walk on the sunny side."

Today we commemorate this event, encouraging everyone to take part in the Daffodils campaign, on which we inform on our  Facebook page.

Photo by Adrian Grycuk (https://pl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plik:Pomnik_Bohater%C3%B3w_Getta_w_Warszawie_2019.jpg)