Poland marks 80th anniversary of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising


WARSAW, April 19 (Xinhua) -- The presidents of Poland, Germany and Israel on Wednesday joined Holocaust survivors and their descendants in Warsaw in commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Sirens wailed and church bells rang at midday to mark the beginning of the ceremony that honored the hundreds of young Jews who took up arms in the Polish capital in 1943 against Nazi Germany.

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