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Oct 10, 2026
Angus WallaceHOST
A city whose people endured occupation, persecution, resistance and ultimately almost total destruction.
Angus WallaceHOST
From the invasion of 1939 through the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the Warsaw Uprising of 1944, we'll explore what happened to the city and its inhabitants during the Second World War.
Angus WallaceHOST
To tell that story, I'm joined by historians Prit Buttar and Lottie Taylor, authors of Warsaw, A City at War, 1939-45.
Angus WallaceHOST
Welcome back, Prit, and hello, Lottie.
HistorianGUEST
And, well, yes and no.
HistorianGUEST
The Jews certainly gave a counterexample of that during the Warsaw Uprising in...
HistorianGUEST
That is true.
HistorianGUEST
Well, there are actually several Warsaw Uprisings, but the one with the Jews, I think it was 43 or 44.
HistorianGUEST
I don't remember exactly.
HistorianGUEST
But they started with basically very few to no weapons and still managed to hold off the Wehrmacht and the SS for at least two weeks with virtually nothing in the way of armament to start.
Norman FinkelsteinGUEST
It was more than a revelation.
Norman FinkelsteinGUEST
The first day, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, in my opinion, is grossly exaggerated.
Norman FinkelsteinGUEST
Not to in any way diminish what they attempted to do.
Norman FinkelsteinGUEST
But the bottom line is the Jewish Fighting Organization did not even have one machine gun.
Emily SchraderHOST
At the University of Toronto, student groups are holding a vigil called Honoring Our Martyrs.
Emily SchraderHOST
On October 7th, after screening a film called called the Gaza Ghetto Uprising, stealing the name of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising when Jews fought against the Nazis.
Emily SchraderHOST
In London, students from KCL, LSE, SOAS, and UCL are all planning to march between their campuses on October 7th in solidarity with Palestinians.
Emily SchraderHOST
The Met police actually asked them to cancel... and couldn't even find the organizers of this event.
Jeremy BurtonHOST
So in Israel, uh, and not to iterate every single version of this in every single detail, but it wasn't until 1951, three years after the establishment of the state, that Israel's parliament, the Knesset, formally established a date on the Hebrew calendar to mark as a day of remembrance, Yom HaShoah.
Jeremy BurtonHOST
And there was a lot of debate about what day they chose, and they ultimately chose the day that marks the specific anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Jeremy BurtonHOST
And, you know, there was a real conversation in Israel about why that date and what they wanted to say, a young, nascent nation in its very early years, about embracing and centering the role of Jews who fought back, Jews who, um, picked up weapons in their own defense.
Jeremy BurtonHOST
And that was an important part of their selection of that day.
Spencer CroninGUEST
Um, and it looks very, very different from Holocaust education in the 1970s or even today.
Spencer CroninGUEST
Um, it is very much a story of resilience, of armed resistance, of fighting back.
Spencer CroninGUEST
It is this sort of ethos of much like, you know, the emerging Israeli state deciding to mark, uh, Yom HaShoah on the eve of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Spencer CroninGUEST
Students in these private Jewish schools, uh, across the country are learning about armed paratroopers that are coming into Europe and liberating their, you know, fellow Jews.
William CooperHOST
My argument with Spielberg is, is-
PaulAUDIENCE
His efforts on the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising-
William CooperHOST
Right
PaulAUDIENCE
... you know, and done a movie about that, you know?
Izabella TabarovskyGUEST
They have heroes.
Izabella TabarovskyGUEST
I think in America, I will often speak to audiences and I would ask them, who are the Jewish heroes that you can name? And they will often say the Maccabees, and then they will say the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
Izabella TabarovskyGUEST
And that's really where it ends.
Izabella TabarovskyGUEST
And I wrote my book to give people examples of Jewish heroism and defiance and reclaiming and kind of the courage of being a dissident in the kind of environment that we live in.
Jonathan GuyerHOST
But looking forward, what makes you not despair about this special relationship and the state of conflict and war as you kind of see this book on bookshelves?
Eli CliftonGUEST
Well, I mean, to be clear, that's that's the quote is based on, you know, of all Jews don't despair that the battle cry issued in the final months of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Eli CliftonGUEST
Certainly for for Ayan and me, that there obviously was a connection in being Jewish Americans writing about this and feeling a sense of compassion.
Eli CliftonGUEST
of connection to speaking about the mistreatment of Palestinians that was going on and being done in a manner that we found both harmful in the manners that it ethically and morally offends us, as well as the manner in which we see it as clearly being done by people who do not care about generating anti-Semitic backlash, indeed, perhaps even welcoming it.
Matthew SolomonGUEST
They were with the partisan resistance.
Matthew SolomonGUEST
There was a Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Matthew SolomonGUEST
Right.
Matthew SolomonGUEST
These are all resistance movements.
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