Poland’s chief rabbi compares operation that sent 260,00 to their deaths to mass displacement of Ukrainians during Russian invasion. Hundreds of people marched through Warsaw on Friday to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Nazi liquidation of the Jewish ghetto during World War II, with the war in Ukraine giving the event fresh resonance. The procession passed through the location where Jews were deported from the ghetto to the Treblinka death camp in central Poland in 1942, killing 260,000. Marchers carried symbolic ribbons bearing the names of the deportees. This year’s march was dedicated to the theme of victims of deportations and forced displacement, with millions of Ukrainians having fled their homes due to Russia’s invasion on February 24.
via timesofisrael: Hundreds march through Warsaw to mark 80 years since Nazis liquidated Jewish ghetto
siehe dazu auch: Marking 80 years since the murder of Warsaw’s Jews In July 1942, the SS launched its operation to systematically exterminate the Jews of Warsaw. A march to commemorate this genocide is taking place in Poland on Friday. (…) The Nazis carried out the deportations with the utmost brutality, in order to nip any attempt at resistance in the bud. Each house was surrounded; its occupants were whipped and beaten as they were driven out into the courtyard, then taken to the so-called “Umschlagplatz” (“collection point”) at the station. People were taken to the Treblinka extermination camp in cattle trucks. After a long and miserable journey, they usually arrived only to be killed in the gas chambers that same day. The Germans disguised their operation, “Grossaktion” Warsaw, as “resettlement in the East,” but many soon realized that they were being sent to their deaths.