WARSAW, Poland, April 19 (UPI) -- Poland is commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the Jewish Ghetto uprising as a heroic action against the Nazi German occupation troops during World War II.
Polish President Lech Kaczynski said that the act of Jewish resistance against the Nazis had been doomed from the onset. However, it had been a heroic action of people who fought to show their determination to live, he said.
Kaczynski was taking part in a commemoration ceremony at the monument to the heroes of the ghetto uprising in Warsaw, Poland's Radio reported.
The president expressed satisfaction with a decision of the Yad Vashem institute in Jerusalem to support a Polish government initiative to change the official name of the World War II death camp Auschwitz to bear direct reference to Nazi Germany.
