Mass meetings throughout Israel this week-end marked the 15th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt against the elite of the Nazi SS corps and tank brigades.
In the Ghetto Fighters settlement north of Haifa, Mrs. Golda Meir, Foreign Minister, told 10,000 men and women that without the spirit of revolt and resistance the Jews would not have attained their homeland. Itzhak Zukerman, known in the Polish underground as Antek, recalled the last days of the rebellion in the ghetto.
At Yad Mordechai, named for revolt commander Mordechai Annilewitz, several thousand concentration camp survivors of the Warsaw resistance heard Minister of Health Israel Barzilai draw a parallel between the resistance fighters and the new generation of Israeli youth.
The Mapam Minister also hit out at Soviet Premier Khrushchev’s allegations that the Jews could not succeed in collective efforts. He cited the example of Israel’s people working with their hands, in collective agriculture and in industry to build their own land.
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