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Forverts in English How Jews In The 1940s Honored The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising — And How We Honor It Now
This article originally appeared in the Yiddish Forverts. The first Holocaust memorial services took place while the genocide of Europe’s Jews was still occurring. Whenever a city or town was liberated, a few Jews would return, clean up the mass graves where their relatives had been shot, erect a simple marker and chant “El Malei…
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