“Warsaw Ghetto Uprising”

SS general Jürgen Stroop (centre) commanding the 1943 police operation in the Warsaw ghetto.   Each year, around April 19, the media commemorate what they call the Warsaw ghetto “revolt”, “uprising” or “insurrection.” In journalists’ accounts the affair tends to take on increasingly epic and symbolic proportions. “There was never any insurrection”.[1] This rejoinder, now five…