Jewish families celebrate Passover in Warsaw Ghetto for first time since Holocaust
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}On the 76th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Jews will celebrate Passover in the Warsaw ghetto.
Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler, Cheif Rabbi of Chabad-Poland, is hosting a special Passover Seder with approximately 100 Jewish families from Israel, Europe, and the United States as his honored guests.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"It is deeply meaningful to us to be celebrating this festival of Passover together as free Jews in a place where so many, including our own family, perished tragically,” Sharon Ben-Shem told Israel National News.
Warsaw residents carry daffodils, which have become the symbol of remembrance of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the German Nazi, during anniversary observances in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, April 19, 2019. (AP)
The seder will be led in three different languages - Polish, Hebrew, and English - ending as one.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Stambler views the seder as a symbol of Jews' victory over anti-Semitism.
“It is very significant for us to be celebrating Jewish holidays, and particularly the Seder night, which symbolizes Jewish freedom and the day that we united as a nation, in a place that not long ago others sought to destroy us,” he said. “Throughout the ages, the Jewish people have been oppressed by many nations, yet we have always emerged triumphant!”
The Great Synagogue of Warsaw, which was destroyed by the German forces during World War II, was recreated virtually with light as part of anniversary commemorations of the 1943 uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto, in Warsaw, Poland, Thursday, April 18, 2019. The multimedia installation, which included the archival recordings of a prewar cantor killed in the Holocaust, is the work of Polish artist Gabi von Seltmann. It was organized by a group that fights anti-Semitism.(AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Thursday night, the Great Synagogue of Warsaw, which was once the largest in the world, re-appeared in the form of a blue-light image in the city.
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Around 370,000 Jews lived in Warsaw before World War II, or one in three residents, and after the German invasion of Poland in 1939, the Nazis drove more than 400,000 Jews into the one square mile Warsaw Ghetto. The Nazis blew up the synagogue in 1943, and today, the ghetto area is the biggest Jewish cemetery in Europe, according to a Holocaust expert.