On the 79th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki paid tribute to the Jewish insurgents. “Honor and glory to all the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, who showed that the fight for a good cause, for freedom and basic human values,​ is never hopeless and lost, and that barbarism, evil and totalitarianism should be met with a decisive resistance”, wrote Morawiecki.

Referring to this event, the Prime Minister reminded the public that 79 years ago, upon the news that the Germans had implemented the plans to liquidate the ghetto as part of their methodical extermination of European Jews, underground Jewish organizations operating in occupied Poland decided to start the first armed urban uprising in occupied Europe.

This spurt was an expression of anger and a desperate protest against the criminal policy of Nazi Germany. The Polish Jews, who had been living in terrible conditions of overpopulation, hunger, disease and terror for three years, showed a great act of courage by starting the struggle against the hundred times stronger Germans. They did not give up. They fought with all their might until the very end”, stressed Prime Minister.

Mateusz Morawiecki also quoted a fragment of the appeal of the Jewish Combat Organization to the Polish people, announcing the outbreak of the uprising: “This is a fight for your and our Freedom. For your human, social and national honor and dignity. (…) Long live Freedom! Death to the torturers and villains! Long live the life and death struggle with the occupant!”.

The head of government also referred to the Russian aggression against Ukraine in his speech.

“79 years later, a few hundred kilometers to the east, similar appeals are sent to the world from Mariupol, Bucha, Kharkiv and other Ukrainian cities … They are still fighting! Honor and glory to all the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, who showed that the fight for a good cause, for freedom and basic human values, is never hopeless and lost, and that barbarism, evil and totalitarianism should be met with a decisive resistance”, emphasized the Prime Minister.