🧵80 years ago after suffering unimaginable sickness, starvation, beatings, death and deportation, Jewish fighters rose up against their Nazi captors in a heroic act of resistance known today as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
In 1939, the Nazis began the forced removal of three million Polish Jews from their homes and transferred them to crowded Ghettos across Poland, including Europe's largest, the Warsaw Ghetto.
By November 1940, 380,000 Jews were sealed inside the Warsaw ghetto.
The 380,000 Jews were crammed into an area of just 1.3 sq miles, surrounded by walls they were forced to build.
Conditions in the Ghetto were horrific.
80,000+ Jews died as a result of overcrowding & starvation. Those who remained alive were completely cut off from the outside.
Important 🧵: Extremist Palestinians are claiming on social media that Israelis are planning on storming the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem today.
This is an OUTRIGHT LIE being used by Palestinian terrorists to encourage attacks on Israelis.
Here's what's really going on.
Tisha B’Av (which began yesterday at night & ends at sundown today) is a national day of mourning which marks the destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem.
Jews in Israel & around the world spend the day in fast & prayer, remembering both Holy Temples destroyed on this day.
For Jews, this is the saddest day of the year, marking the destruction of their holiest site and a series of calamities which befell the Jewish people.
For centuries, it has been a custom for Jews to go up to the Temple Mount where the Temple once stood on the Ninth of Av.
These are the eleven victims who were murdered in terror attacks by Israeli-Arab and Palestinian terrorists in the last week.
May their Memory be a blessing.
Doris Yahbas: Mother of three and resident of Moshav Gilat.
She was stabbed by an Israeli-Arab outside a shop in Beer-Sheva.
She was evacuated to Soroka Medical Center, but the medical teams were unable to save her life. She is survived by her husband and children.
Laura Yitzhak: 43, mother of three & resident of Beer Sheva.
She was attacked and stabbed repeatedly by the Israeli-Arab assailant while waiting for her husband at a gas station in Beer Sheva. Medics pronounced her dead at the scene.
I was born Hannah Hershkowitz in Biala Rawska, Poland where Jews & Poles lived together for centuries.
My parents Hershel & Zisel were respected members of our town. My Polish neighbor Marisha was my best friend. I had a wonderful childhood until my life was turned upside down.
I was 4 when the Germans arrived in our town.
First the curfews started.
Then the yellow stars, which I noticed one evening sewn into my mother's black & father's gray coat.