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Poland marks 80th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

People attend an event on the occasion of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in front of the Warsaw Ghetto monument in Warsaw, Poland, April 19, 2023. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

Eighty years on from the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - the largest Jewish revolt against Nazi Germany during World War II - Poland marked the heroism of those who took part with a warning to the world against sowing hatred.

In 1940, German Nazi occupiers corralled over 400,000 Jews into a small section of the Polish capital Warsaw; most were then sent to camps to be killed or died from the conditions within the ghetto, but on April 19, 1943 hundreds took up arms.

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