The legendary Warsaw revolt and other acts of Jewish resistance — both physical and spiritual — are focus of this year’s Yom HaShoah commemoration at Yad Vashem
Since the Knesset passed a resolution establishing “Holocaust and Ghetto Uprising Remembrance Day†in 1951, the understanding of what it means to have resisted the Nazis has expanded by leaps and bounds.
As its central theme for this year’s Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on April 18, the Yad Vashem Holocaust remembrance center in Jerusalem chose “Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust : Marking 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.†In addition to highlighting examples of Jews taking up arms, attention will be given to ways in which Jews resisted their oppressors spiritually.