Warsaw Ghetto Uprising commemorated on 80th anniversary

By VANESSA GERA
Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The presidents of Germany, Poland and Israel, joined by Holocaust survivors and their descendants, are marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Observances in Warsaw on Wednesday are being held with a poignant sense that the responsibility for carrying on the memory of the victims of the ghetto, and all Holocaust survivors, is passing from the witnesses to younger generations. The anniversary honors the hundreds of young Jews who took up arms in Warsaw in 1943 against the overwhelming might of the Nazi German army. Official commemorations are being held in front of the Memorial to the Ghetto Heroes on the ground where the fighting erupted.