The last surviving fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising is dead. Simcha Rotem died at the age of 94 years in Israel, told Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Saturday. The President recalled the commitment of the Jewish resistance fighter against the Nazis and praised him as a champion for humanity. Red was one of the few Ghetto residents who survived the uprising of 1943.
hundreds of Jewish resistance fighters charged at the 19. April 1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto against the German Nazi occupiers. They waged a desperate fight, which ended four weeks later with the brutal repression by the occupying forces. Thousands of Ghetto residents were killed during the uprising, most of the Survivors were later gassed in the extermination camp of Treblinka.
the Red was able to escape with some Mitkämpfern through the sewers. In 1944, he took part in the Warsaw uprising against the Nazis, later he moved to Israel. In Warsaw, Red other Jews to escape, and “saved dozens of fighters helped”, as Israel’s President Rivlin pointed out on Saturday.
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75 years of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising valour against the Superior forces
Paul Flückiger
In a speech to the 70. Anniversary of the uprising of 2013, reminded the Red to the desperate determination of the Jewish resistance fighters: they could have at least “want to be the kind of one’s own death” by rising up against the occupiers, rather than meekly deported. (AFP)
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