Yellow flowers of spring - and of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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TFN Reporter April 19, 2019

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For years, Marek Edelman, a leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, received a bouquet of yellow daffodils from an anonymous person on April 19th, the day the uprising broke out in 1943.

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So every year, Edelman laid the flowers at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in memory of those who fought and died.

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In 2013, to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the uprising, the Museum of the History of Polish Jews initiated the Daffodil Campaign by handing out thousands of daffodils. The tradition continues to today.

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Outside the Museum which is built on the site of the former ghetto, there are hundreds and hundreds of daffodils growing in the spot where many died.

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The Jewish insurgents, around 6,000 of whom were killed during the uprising, knew they had little chance of surviving - they fought for dignity.

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The paper daffodils, which people wear on this day, are in memory of the tradition started by Marek Edelman.

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The day of the uprising is remembered with daffodils by young and old alike.

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Sometimes the smallest gesture is the most powerful.

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Symbolizing rebirth and new beginnings, daffodils have become synonymous with the beginning of spring. But in Poland, they have yet another meaning - the commemoration of the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Tags: Poland, WWII, Jews, Warsaw, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Yellow flowers of spring - and of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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