08.08.2014 - 14:16 [ Independent ]

Marek Edelman: Last surviving leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising against the Nazis

These words are taken from The Ghetto Fights, Marek Edelman‘s stunning memoir of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in 1943 against the Nazi Holocaust in Poland. They describe the amazing escape for the lucky few from the Ghetto‘s burning remnants. The Nazis had finally set the Ghetto on fire because, Edelman says, that was the only way they could win and „save their military honour“.