One of the last survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance tells of the bravery of those who dared to stand up against the Nazis
CNNCNN — One of the last surviving members of the Warsaw Ghetto resistance has told CNN the world must never forget the bravery of those who stood up to the Nazis, 80 years after World War II’s largest Jewish uprising. Speaking to CNN from the World Holocaust Remembrance Center at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem on Wednesday, Vitis-Shomron said she and her fellow couriers acted like “the television, radio or newspapers which we didn’t have.” Find out more: Remembering the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the people who fought back Aliza Vitis-Shomron is pictured here in 1945, soon after the end of the war. She told me that I should go because she said ‘we need someone to survive to tell our story.’” “She knew that if I stayed I would not survive and it was more important to her that someone would be left alive to tell the story and because of that I agreed to leave the ghetto,” said Vitis-Shomron, who made a commitment to tell the world what had happened after she escaped with her mother and sister on April 17. He said: “The Warsaw Ghetto uprising has become the iconic representation of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust.
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