Warsaw, Poland, Spring: Nazi–imposed Jewish Ghetto.
Final insurgency: First Day of Passover, Spring 1943.
Duration: 27 days: April 19–May 16, 1943.
In the cataclysmic Jewish rebellion, uprising leader Mordecai Anielewicz, age 23, and 750 other organized Jewish fighters – as well as thirteen thousand Jews of Warsaw – are either killed in the Nazi fire bombings or murdered execution–style by the SS…
[See back cover photo memorial]
Warsaw was one of 100 recorded Jewish revolts against the Nazis.
The phoenix of Anielewicz’s fighters incinerated in the ashes of Warsaw’s firestorm will arise—5 years almost to the day—incarnate in the Haganah (whose recruits are acutely versed in his insurgency)…May 14, 1948.