Government representatives and religious leaders of Poland's Jewish community on Tuesday paid tribute to Jewish heroes during the 63rd anniversary of the Ghetto uprising in Warsaw.

Flanked by hundreds of local residents, they laid flowers and wreaths at the foot of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and then marched to the monument dedicated to the Ghetto Heroes to pay homage to those who took part in the fight-back against the Nazis.

The German Nazis established the Ghetto by cordoning off the Jewish district of Warsaw with a high brick wall in November 1940. To an area of four square km, they herded Jews from other districts of the city and the entire Mazowsze region, holding 450,000 people in the site at one point.

On April 19, 1943, hundreds of young Jewish fighters took up arms in the first major civilian resistance against the Nazis. Nearly 14,000 were killed and the entire district was razed to the ground.

Source: Xinhua