The 11th anniversary of the Jewish rebellion in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazi Army was marked by a huge rally in Upper Galilee at the Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz where a number of survivors of the one-sided desperate battle of Jews with small arms against Nazi tanks and artillery now live.
Speaker of the Knesset Joseph Sprinzak and Dr. Itzhak Gruenbaum, leader of Polish Jewry, as well as Parliamentary deputies representing both the Mapai and Mapam parties, participated in the memorial. Besides speeches, ghetto songs and poems were read and partisan songs were sung.
At Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, named for Mordechai Annilevitz, commander of the Jewish forces in the uprising, who died in action during the battle, hundreds of persons took part in a memorial service. Flowers and wreaths, including one from the Chief of Staff of the Israel Army, were laid at the foot of a monument to Annilevitz.
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