Zofia Lipecka: On Arriving There, Did the Horrible Truth Dawn on Us

Seventy years ago, on the eve of the Jewish festival of Passover, an uprising broke out in the Warsaw Ghetto—the first urban uprising of the Second World War. The insurgents could not succeed; theirs was a desperate act, a choice to die with dignity and weapons in their hands. The uprising was brutally suppressed, while most of the Jewish population was murdered within the ghetto or at the Treblinka extermination camp. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is regarded by the Jewish people as one of the most important events in their history.