🔼 Above: A scene from The Pianist, a film portraying the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto, where Jews were confined by Nazi forces, restricted from passing through certain streets, monitored, and segregated from the rest of society. 🔽 Below: A photo from the West Bank in 2025, where Palestinians live under an Israeli military regime that imposes strikingly similar restrictions—segregated road systems, military checkpoints and entire areas where Palestinians are forbidden from walking or driving simply due t

#OnThisDay the battle of the Warsaw ghetto began in 1943. A force of 2,000 Nazi SS troops attacked the ghetto with tanks and machine guns. ⁠ ⁠ They were met with gunfire and temporarily driven out. SS General Stropp ordered the ghetto set on fire with artillery and flamethrowers. ⁠ ⁠ The fighting raged for weeks until Jews ran out of ammunition. Thousands died in the burning buildings. ⁠ ⁠ The Warsaw ghetto uprising ended on May 16, 1943. 7,000 Jews died during the revolt. Only seventy Jewish fi

We were inside the Great Synagogue in Warsaw, destroyed by the German army in 1943 😮 How is this possible? Visit Park Miniatur! | Go to Warsaw