Israeli President Shimon Peres started a four-day visit to Poland on Monday to attend celebrations of the 65th anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against the Nazis.
Peres and Polish President Lech Kaczynski paid a visit to the Museum of Struggle and Martyrdom in Treblinka on Monday. Most Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto were murdered by Nazis in the Treblinka II concentration camp, according to Polish news agency PAP.
On Tuesday Peres and Kaczynski will attend main celebrations of the 65th anniversary of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at the Warsaw Monument to Ghetto Heroes.
The Polish and Israeli presidents will also meet with delegations of Jewish war veteran organizations, ghetto fighters and Sobibor camp fighters.
Celebrations, which are to last for a few days, will include exhibitions, concerts, music installations and film shows.
On April 19, 1943 several hundred young Jews decided to take up arms against the occupying Germans, resolving to fight rather than face near-certain death in the Nazis' "Final Solution."
That 63-day revolt and the Germans' brutal response cost the lives of 200,000 civilians and fighters, and led to the near-total destruction of Warsaw by Nazi troops.
An official part of President Peres' visit to Poland will start on Wednesday with an official welcome ceremony and talks with the Polish president. The two heads of state will discuss economic cooperation between the two countries and the situation in the Middle East.
Later on Wednesday the Israeli president will meet with Prime Minister Donald Tusk and deliver a lecture at Warsaw University.
On Thursday President Peres will meet with Sejm (Parliament) and Senate Speakers Bronislaw Komorowski and Bogdan Borusewicz and will address MPs in the Senate.
Source:Xinhua
|
Comment
Tell A Friend
Print Format
Save Article