Peres Remembers the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Jewish President Shimon Peres looks on during a meeting with unseen Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk in Warsaw on 16 April 2008.

Polish Jewish resi Starving Children from the Warsaw ghetto.

Peres paid tribute on 15 April 2008, to Jews who took part in the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against Nazi tyranny, saying there had never been a greater victory even though the resistance perished.

The Warsaw Ghetto Fights Back.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

A family marching at the head of a column of Jews on their way to be deported during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943.

One of the most famous pictures of the Jewish Holocaust. German storm troopers force Warsaw ghetto dwellers of all ages to move, hands up, during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in April-May 1943.

Half of the six million Jews, who died in the Holocaust, were Polish.