Tova Gutstein was 10 years old when the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto launched an uprising against the Nazis.
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“Over 80 years have passed, and I can’t forget it,” Gutstein told The Associated Press at her home in central Israel. At the height of the ghetto's horrors in 1941, one Jew died on average, every nine minutes from infectious diseases, starvation or Nazi violence, said David Silberklang, a senior historian at Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
“The goal of the uprising was not rescue,” said Silberklang, the historian. He said it was last-ditch resistance against inevitable death. "I go to sleep with this image, and I wake up with it. It’s very hard for me to forget it,” she said. Israel, which was established as a refuge for Jews in the wake of the Holocaust, is today home to around 150,600 survivors, according to government figures. That is a drop of over 15,000 from last year. Many of those still alive now were just young children during the war.
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