Israeli and Polish officials were among those marking the 55th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis. Survivors of the uprising said Kaddish in memory of the 200 Jews who decided to fight when Nazi troops began to liquidate the ghetto. Most of the ghetto’s residents were killed during the uprising, which was crushed after three months.
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