It is one of the most emblematic events of World War II. On April 19, 1943 a handful of Jewish fighters revolted against Nazi barbarism that had methodically undertaken the deportation and extermination of 400,000 Jews crowded into the Warsaw ghetto since July 1942. Three weeks after the final uprising, nothing remained of the ghetto and its inhabitants. Only 40 survivors managed to escape through the city sewers.
“We do not wish to save our lives. None of us will come out of this alive. We want to save the honour of mankind." These words attributed to Arie Wilner, one of the fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, summarise the choice of 500 fighters of the Jewish Combat Organization (JCO): dying through armed resistance against the German army rather than disappearing in the death camps interspersed across Nazi-occupied Poland.
