[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9304]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    REMEMBERING THE WARSAW UPRISING

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the distinguished visiting Chaplain 
mentioned the Revolutionary War event, and that is memorable. Also, on 
this day I think it is important, to reflect on the Holocaust, that 
this day in 1943 was the beginning of the Warsaw Uprising at the Warsaw 
ghetto. As I recall, the Germans invaded Poland in 1939. They were, to 
say the least, brutal, especially against the Jews. In about 1941, as I 
recall, they cordoned off an area that was about 20 blocks by 6 blocks 
and ordered everyone out who was not Jewish and ordered all Jews from 
the whole large metropolitan area of Warsaw into that ghetto.
  Word got out that the Jews had gathered some weapons, as they had 
done, minimal in number, and the German tanks came in on this day in 
1943. Of course they were to wipe out the ghetto in 1 day, but these 
gallant Polish patriots, these Jews, held out for more than a month.
  In the annals of history, it is one of the greatest acts of defiance 
against terrorism that exists. They did it with heroism and gallantry, 
and it is a day that we should recognize as being a day in the history 
of mankind where people stood up for what was right and against what 
was wrong.

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