Poland is commemorating the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, an ill-fated Jewish revolt against the occupying Nazis which marked a symbolic stand against the Holocaust.
Ahead of Tuesday's official ceremonies, Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres lit candles at the memorial to the 800,000 people murdered at Treblinka, 100 kilometres northeast of Warsaw. On the eve of World War II, Poland was Europe's Jewish heartland, home to some 3.5 million Jews. Peres, who is on a four-day visit, was born in 1923 in what was then northeastern Poland. His family later emigrated to the then British-ruled Palestine.
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