Holocaust Commemoration
April 19, 1943 was the date that the Germans began to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto. This year it falls on Saturday, the eve of Passover. Marek Edelman, the last surviving commander of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, will lay a wreath in honor of the 220 fighters he led.
The 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was also remembered in a ceremony yesterday (Tuesday) with the participation of Israel’s president, Shimon Peres, other dignitaries and Holocaust survivors.
In Berlin, the “Train of Commemoration” is running into controversy. The train is a mobile exhibition commemorating the thousands of Jewish children deported during the Holocaust. The railway company in Germany questions the safety of the old locomotive on its train tracks and hasn’t allowed the train to stop at some of the newer railway stations.
