WARSAW — Poland on Sunday marked the 70th anniversary of the
start of Nazi Germany's mass deportation of Jews from the Warsaw
ghetto to the death camp of Treblinka, one of the darkest
episodes of the Holocaust. Several thousand people took part in
a memorial march in the Polish capital to pay tribute to the
victims of an operation launched on July 22, 1942 that was to
claim the lives of 260,000 members of Warsaw's Jewish community.
"It's a date as important as the start of the ghetto uprising on
April 19, 1943. It's a date for remembering those who were sent
to their deaths, almost the entire Jewish population of the
city," Andrzej Zozula, a senior Jewish community leader, told
AFP. Alongside Polish and Israeli officials were ordinary Warsaw
residents. "We have a duty to be here so that no-one forgets.
The generation that survived the war is passing, so it's up to
up to remember what happened," said Krystyna Bratkowska, a
publisher. Earlier Sunday, officials unveiled a sombre
exhibition of unpublished period