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World Service,19 May 2010,10 mins

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Witness History

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In May 1943 the uprising in the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw came to an end. German forces had crushed the rebellion with such force that no buildings were left standing in the city's Jewish quarter. Simha "Kazik" Rotem was one of the Jewish fighters who survived to tell his story.

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