Trump’s Warsaw Summit Warned Iran Against a Second Holocaust
Trump’s Warsaw Summit Warned Iran Against a Second Holocaust
Last month, President Trump called for a European summit to begin to reorient the continent against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Thus far, a number of European nations — England, France, and, ironically, Germany chief among them — have proven hesitant to back Trump’s departure from the flawed and dangerous Iran nuclear deal, which not only rewarded Iran with $150 billion, but also essentially paved their way to a nuclear weapon after the expiration of its sunset clauses in less than seven years.
Poland agreed to host the summit. It was attended by Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and delegates from across the globe coming together to confront Iran.
Warsaw, the city, once known throughout Europe as “the little Jerusalem,” saw the world’s greatest ever decimation of a Jewish community. In 1938, the Jewish population of Warsaw hovered close to 300,000. Following the German occupation of Poland in 1939, the population would balloon to 400,000, as Jews from in and around the city were forced to live inside an area consisting of less than 1.5 square miles, known as the “Jewish Residential District of Warsaw” — or, as we know it today, the Warsaw Ghetto.
There were an average of 9.2 persons per room in the ghetto, and malnourishment and disease would claim nearly 100,000 lives. Three hundred thousand more would be killed by bullets and gas, with 250,000 being sent to their deaths in Treblinka in the summer of 1942 alone. If you’ve done the math already, you know: almost none survived.
Today, little of the old Warsaw remains. Following the Polish Home Army’s heroic uprising in the summer of 1944, the German Nazis would destroy more than 80 percent of all of the city’s infrastructure — more than 10,000 buildings — including roughly all of Warsaw’s bridges, hospitals, factories, cultural centers, and monumental structures.
Still, fragments of the past have lasted. Visitors can still see portions of the ghetto wall, Janusz Korczak’s original orphanage, the last remaining synagogue (which is active and in use), and Umschlagplatz, the square from which those hundreds of thousands of Jews would be sent to their deaths in Treblinka. Perhaps the most moving part of any Jewish visit to the city, however, is the mass grave at Mila 18, headquarters of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, where its heroic commander, Mordechai Anielewicz, and his comrades would fall on what is assumed to be May 8, 1943 (there were no surviving eyewitnesses).
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