Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

The hero insurgent who interviewed a Nazi monster after they found themselves sharing a Stalinist cell

Sharing a cell with Jurgen Stroop (R), the psychopathic Nazi responsible for quashing the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the experience compelled Kazimierz Moczarski (L) to pen the ground-breaking book Conversations With An Executioner. Public domain

On the anniversary of resistance hero Kazimierz Moczarski being incarcerated with Jurgen Stroop, the man who hunted down and quashed the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, TFN’s Alex Webber looks back at the incredible story of their shared confinement and the book that emerged exploring what “led certain Germans to become genocidal killers.”

Yellow flowers of spring - and of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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.

‘We knew we couldn’t win. We fought so we could die with dignity.’ Harrowing words of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising survivor a powerful reminder of heroism in adversity on 76th anniversary of doomed resistance

The awareness that the Germans were striving for the total extermination of Jews changed the character of Jewish resistance. Under no illusions about what the Germans were planning to do to them, ghetto residents began to build tunnels, bunkers and shelters. In total, about a thousand poorly armed insurgents took part in the fighting. Set against them were more than two thousand Wehrmacht, SS and Ukrainian, Lithuanian and Latvian auxiliary units with armoured vehicles and artillery.

No, no, no! Poland’s US Embassy rebukes reporter’s inaccurate reporting that WWII Jews fought against ‘Polish and Nazi regime’

The Polish Embassy told reporter Andrea Mitchell: “The 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a heroic act against the German Nazis who established the ghetto & carried out the #Holocaust.”

Łódź rings in “year of Marek Edelman” as city remembers one of its most famous sons

Born on January 1, 1918 Edelman fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Warsaw Uprising and went on to be a prominent anti-racism campaigner.

Last survivor of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising dies aged 94

Simcha Rotem fought against the German Nazis in 43 and would later fight in the Warsaw Uprising.

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