April 19 in 1943 marked the beginning of an act of organized Jewish resistance in the Warsaw ghetto. The goal of the resistors was to oppose Nazi Germany’s final effort to transport the remaining ghetto population to death camps. Host Marco Werman speaks with Peter Black, former senior historian for the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. They discuss the people who rose up against their captors and the lessons their actions carry today.
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