On April 19, 1943, the Jewish resistance rose up against the German forces who had come to liquidate the Warsaw ghetto.
Each year, a commemoration of their courage is organized at the Shoah Memorial in partnership with the Remembrance Commission of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF).
11am – Opening of the commemoration ceremony by Robert Ejnes, Executive Director of Crif
Welcome by Bruno Halioua, President of the Crif Remembrance Commission
Speech by Eric de Rothschild, President of the Shoah Memorial
Speech by Talya Lador-Fresher, Ambassador of Israel in France
Speech by Francis Kalifat, President of the Crif
Singing in Yiddish: 'Yisrolik' by Michèle Tauber, followed by the recitation in Yiddish and then in French of an excerpt from Avrom Sutzkever’s poem: 'Les plombs de l'imprimerie Rom'
Excerpt from the testimony of Larissa Cain, survivor of the Warsaw ghetto
Recitation of the El Male Rahamin, by Chief Rabbi Olivier Kaufman
And throughout the day, we invite you to watch an exceptional conference-meeting recorded in 2008, with Simha Rotem-Kazik, fighter of the Warsaw ghetto uprising:
We also share for the first time the testimony of Liliane Riedler, who tells about her daily life at ten years old in the Small Ghetto of Warsaw with her parents:
Members of Hashomer Hatzaïr France, a Jewish Zionist and socialist youth movement, wished to read the latest letters of Szmul Zylgielbojm, Bund activist, as well as Mordehaï Anielewicz, former member of Hashomer Hatzaïr in Poland, in order to pay tribute to two people, who through their acts of bravery, inspire them daily to keep alive and develop their movement.
