One month after the shameful meeting of the Israeli government sponsored far right gathering in Israel to "combat antisemitism", an event that most Jews of all persuasions, considered grotesque, it is worth remembering that 82 years ago in April-May 1943 one of the most inspiring moments in world and Jewish history was unfolding. The Warsaw Ghetto Jewish Fighting Organisation (in Polish ZOB) announced to the world: "All of us will probably perish in the fight… it is a fight for our human dignity and honour, as well as yours."

By spring 1943, the massive overcrowding and drastic shortage of food, sanitation and medicines in the Warsaw Ghetto meant that there was a large death rate from disease and malnutrition. Nonetheless, the Jews were not dying fast enough and Nazis began clearing........

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