Commemoration of the Warsaw ghetto uprising

On 19 April 1943, the Jewish resistance rose up against the German forces that had liquidated the Warsaw ghetto.

Each year, a commemoration of their courage is organized at the Shoah Memorial in partnership with the Remembrance Commission of the Conseil représentatif des institutions juives de France (Crif).

This year, due to the health crisis, the ceremony will take place live on the internet from 11am on the Memorial’s Facebook page and the Crif’s Facebook page. Find the program below:

  • 11 a.m. Opening of the commemoration ceremony by Robert Ejnes, Executive Director of CRIF
  • Welcome by Bruno Halioua, President of the Crif Remembrance Commission
  • Address 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 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 El Male Rahamin, by the Chief Rabbi Olivier Kaufman
  • Song: "Zog Nit Keyn Mol" by Talila
  • 11:40 – End of ceremony

?Find the entire ceremony on the Memorial’s Facebook page.

You will also be able to discover the film Little Heroes of Warsaw, by Chochana Boukhobza, in exclusivity below from 12pm until midnight:

Les petits héros du ghetto de Varsovie by Chochana Boukhobza, documentary, France, 2014, 59', Paris-Barcelona films.

And throughout the day, we invite you to watch an exceptional conference-meeting recorded in 2008, with Simha Rotem-Kazik, a fighter of the Warsaw ghetto uprising:

We also share for the first time the testimony of Liliane Riedler, who recounts her daily life at ten years old in the Little Ghetto of Warsaw with her parents:

Members of Hashomer Hatzaïr France, a Jewish Zionist and socialist youth movement, wished to read the latest letters from Szmul Zylgielbojm, a Bund activist, as well as Mordehaï Anielewicz, a former member of Hashomer Hatzaïr in Poland, in order to pay tribute to two people, who through their acts of bravery, inspire them every day to keep their movement alive and growing.

Find their videos below: