Biden honours memory of 1943 Warsaw ghetto fightersUS Vice President Joe Biden This article is about the United States Senator from Delaware, for other uses of the name, see Biden. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American lawyer and politician from Wilmington, Delaware. Wednesday paid tribute to Jewish fighters who battled Nazi Germany in the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (April 19–May 16, 1943) Revolt by Polish Jews under Nazi occupation against deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp. By July 1942 the Nazis had herded 500,000 Jews from surrounding areas into the ghetto in Warsaw. , which has come to symbolise courage against overwhelming odds. Flanked by a Polish army honour guard, Biden solemnly laid a wreath at the foot of the imposing monument unveiled in 1948 near the site of the fighters' last stand in their ill-fated revolt. The wreath of red, white and blue flowers -- the colours of the US flag -- bore a ribbon reading "In Memory of the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising". Biden then stood with his right hand over his heart as a bugler played a salute, before a choir of children sang a Jewish song and he spoke with dignitaries including Poland's chief rabbi "Chief Rabbinate" redirects here. See also Chief Rabbinate of Israel. Chief Rabbi is a title given in several countries to the recognised religious leader of that country's Jewish community, or to a rabbinic leader appointed by the local secular authorities. , Michael Schudrich Rabbi Michael Schudrich (b. 1955) is the chief rabbi of Poland. He was born in New York City to a Polish Jewish family from Baligród. Rabbi Schudrich was educated in Jewish Day Schools in the New York area and graduated from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1977 majoring in Religious Studies. . After invading Poland in 1939, Nazi Germany isolated Polish Jews Note: Names that cannot be confirmed in Wikipedia database nor through given sources are subject to removal. If you would like to add a new name please consider writing about the person first. inside ghettos across the country, before beginning their systematic campaign of mass murder in the Holocaust. At its height, around 450,000 people were crammed into the walled Warsaw ghetto, including Jews brought from other European nations. About 100,000 died inside from starvation and disease. Most of the rest were sent to the Treblinka death camp in northeast Poland in mass deportations in 1942. A handful of Jewish paramilitary groups, mostly made up of people in their teens and twenties, were formed in the Warsaw ghetto. The poorly armed fighters first clashed with Nazi troops on January 18-22, 1943, managing to hinder the deportations. On April 19, the Nazis began liquidating the ghetto, where just 60,000 people remained, and the fighters rose up again. "We knew perfectly well that there was no way we could win. It was a symbol of the fight for freedom. A symbol of standing up to Nazism, and of not giving in," the uprising's last commander, Marek Edelman, told AFP (1) (AppleTalk Filing Protocol) The file sharing protocol used in an AppleTalk network. In order for non-Apple networks to access data in an AppleShare server, their protocols must translate into the AFP language. See file sharing protocol. in a 2008 interview. Edelman died in Warsaw on October 2 aged 90. The insurrection lasted three weeks, until the Nazis razed raze also rase tr.v. razed also rased, raz·ing also ras·ing, raz·es also ras·es 1. To level to the ground; demolish. See Synonyms at ruin. 2. To scrape or shave off. 3. the ghetto, killing and deporting the vast majority of those who had been unable to flee. Biden arrived in Poland late Tuesday, kicking off a tour of eastern Europe that will also see him visit Romania and the Czech Republic. 
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