Commemoration of the 79th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

As every year, CRIF, through its Remembrance Commission, and the Shoah Memorial organize the commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Marek Edelman, one of the few survivors of the Warsaw ghetto, said: "By lifting ourselves up, we reminded ourselves of our belonging to mankind. By taking up arms against those who wanted to annihilate us, we clung to life and became free men.”

The commemoration of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising pays a double tribute: the first, to the Jewish resistance, to its fighters who did not see the victory of the Allies, and the second to all the victims of the Holocaust who did not have the means to take up arms; to all the vulnerable including the one and a half million missing children.

The 79th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising will be broadcast live on the website as well as on the Shoah Memorial’s Facebook and YouTube pages. 

In partnership with Le Crif

Program of the commemoration of the 79th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising:

18h: Opening of the ceremony

18h05: Welcome from Éric de Rothschild, President of the Shoah Memorial

18:10: Speech by Francis Kalifat, President of CRIF

18h20: Yiddish reading "Song of the ghetto of Byalistok" by Lise Gutman, journalist and professor of Yiddish followed by the translation into French recited by Arthur Nauzyciel, actor, Director of the national theater of Brittany

6:30 PM: Address by Her Excellency Mrs. Yaël German, Ambassador of Israel in France

18:40: Intervention by Larissa Cain, survivor of the Warsaw ghetto and writer

18:50: Calls for resistance from the Ghetto fighters and poetic evocation by the youth movements

19h: Ring of the Dead

19:05: Kaddish by the Chief Rabbi Olivier Kaufmann

19:10: Hymn of the Vilnius Ghetto and the Jewish Resistance, by Talila (accompanied by Teddy Lasry)

19h15: End of the Ceremony.