Eighteen Jews who took part in the Warsaw Ghetto revolt and managed to escape the fate of most of the Ghetto inhabitants by fleeing rough underground sewers with the assistance of the Polish resistance movement were tried today in the Jewish cemetery here on the eve of the unveiling of the Ghetto memorial tomorrow, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the revolt.
The 18 Jews fought as partisans after their escape and were later killed by ?zis in a forest near Wyszkow. Their bodies were exhumed from a mass grave and tried in the traditional Jewish manner today. Representatives of the Polish rabbinate, the Central Jewish Committee, partisan groups and delegations from foreign sentries here to attend the unveiling ceremonies took part in the burial ritual.
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