Report by: Narimène Laouadi and Renaud Lefort 
Format: 14 minutes
Weekly magazine

In 1943, the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising took place. It was a courageous act of resistance against the Nazis by several hundred Jewish fighters.

Since 1940, the Jewish population of the Polish capital - approximately 400 000 people - had been confined by Nazi occupiers in a small neighborhood in the center of the city.  Many died as a result of starvation and diseases. Others were sent to the Treblinka death camp Narimène Laouadi and Renaud Lefort revisit the Warsaw Ghetto for France 24. 

On April 19th1943, German troops entered the ghetto to deport the last survivors. Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, the Jewish resistance fighters fought for nearly a month, before being crushed, killed, or sent to death camps. The ghetto was razed to the ground. 

There were few survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto but those still alive and their descendants, continue to carry the memory of the ghetto to this day. Eighty years on, how is Poland remembering those events in a country ruled by a rightwing populist government? 

“A maze of memories: Warsaw Ghetto 80 years on” to be aired on France 24 in English, in French, in Arabic and in Spanish and also available on demand on france24.com