80th Anniversary of Uprising Against Nazi Genocide, Survivors to be Honored

Towa Gutstein was born in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, in the same year that Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. Towa was 10 years old when Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began the first mass uprising against the Nazis in Europe. Today, 90-year-old Towa is one of the few survivors of the Nazi genocide who witnessed the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. On Monday, when Israel marks the 80th anniversary of the uprising that shaped national consciousness, Tova will be among six survivors of the Nazi genocide who will be honored to light a lamp at the annual Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Will be achieved

According to Tova, the horrific scene of the Nazi genocide is still fresh in her mind. “More than 80 years have passed, but I haven’t forgotten that horrific scene,” she told The Associated Press at her residence in central Israel. Towa grew up in the Warsaw Ghetto. The Nazis forcibly took his father to a labor camp, after which he was never seen again. Tova remembers how she and other Jewish children crawled out on the ground to pick food in the Warsaw Ghetto surrounded by electric wires. She says that during this time some children also died after falling into the sewer. Towa said, “We used to think only about food. All we used to think about was how to arrange food. There was nothing else on our mind.

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