Warsaw memory

Poland has another 20th century story of fighting oppression in the twentieth century.

Soon after Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, the 400,000 Jews of Warsaw were confined to an area about a mile square. A year later thousands were dying every month from starvation and disease. Thousands were sent to death camps.

In January 1943 some of them ambushed soldiers coming to take away another group.  In April Heinrich Himmler (head of Nazi SS) sent tanks and heavy artillery. Jewish fighters held them off for over three weeks, but in the end about 7,000 Jews died and 50,000 more went to the camps.

On April 19 of every year, Poland still honors the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. The German Foreign Minister laid a wreath at the memorial yesterday in this photo.