A yellow a daffodil is displayed on the facade of the Presidential Palace to mark the 77th anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Warsaw, Poland, on the evening of Sunday 19 April 2020.
Yellow refers to the colour of daffodils, which the last leader of the Jewish Combat Organization, Marek Edelman, received every year from an anonymous person and which he submitted every year on April 19 at the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes.
April 19 commemorates the day in 1943 when Jewish insurgents began a violent resistance against police and SS auxiliary troops who planned to deport the Jews in the ghetto to concentration camps.
Their revolt, which the insurgents knew was doomed but allowed them to die fighting rather than in gas chambers, bogged down the German advance into the ghetto by several weeks.
The main part of the revolt lasted 10 days but it was only definitively ended almost a month later on May 16 when the Nazis demolished the Great Synangogue of Warsaw.
An estimated 13,000 Jews were killed in the ghetto during the uprising. It was the largest single act of Jewish resistance against Nazi Germany.
On Sunday sirens went off in Warsaw at midday, like every year, honouring the rebellion.
In the streets, there was no distribution of daffodils which Warsaw residents usually pin to their clothes to mark the day, and which ressemble the yellow badges Jews were ordered to wear by Nazi Germany.
