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WARSAW (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on weekday honoured the Jews who fought and died in the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against fascist Germany, as he began a meet to Poland.

An distance after cerebration in the Polish capital, Obama ordered a chaplet at an dignified sepulture upraised in 1948 where the sure fighters had prefabricated their last stand.

He then bowlegged his nous as a military bugler played the Last Post.

Obama was joined by Polish body and members of Poland's person accord including US-born Chief title Schudrich. He chatted with Holocaust survivors, clutch an elderly woman.

The president vowed to convey in 2013 with his daughters for the inaugural of the landmark Museum of the History of Polish Jews, low cerebration nearby the memorial, its administrator Agnieszka Rudzinska told reporters.

"He said the museum is an essential project, not exclusive for Poles and Jews but also for the entire world," she said.

Pre-war Polska was a person heartland, with a centuries-old accord listing some 3.2 million, or around 10 percent of the country's population.

Speaking to ceremony participants, Obama underlined that "incredibly flush history", which the newborn museum will recount.

Polish Jews represented around half of the Holocaust's six meg victims.

On Apr 19, 1943, they moved to wipe discover the Warsaw ghetto, where meet 60,000 people remained after most of the 450,000 held there had died of hunger or disease or had been dispatched to death camps.

It was then that hundreds of poorly-armed paramilitaries chromatic up in Europe's prototypal cityfied anti-Nazi revolt.

Against every odds, they held discover for threesome weeks, with the Nazis eventually using fire and explosives to finish them.

Many of those healthy to carelessness went on to join the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. Around 18,000 status members and 200,000 civilians died in that unsuccessful two-month revolt, in which Warsaw was every but razed by the Nazis.

In 1946, a year after the war, Poland's Jews numbered meet 200,000. Most emigrated amid the creation of Zion in 1948 or anti-Semitic campaigns by the newborn communist regime, which broken in 1989.

Overall, no digit knows how some Jews springy in Poland, an irresistibly Catholic nation of 38 million. Estimates arrange from 20,000 to 50,000, far outstripping those astir in the community.

Before visiting the monument, Obama also ordered a chaplet at Poland's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

He after attended a employed dinner with more than a dozen presidents from ex-communist nations. He is due to twine up his European journeying Sat with joint talks with Poland's leaders.

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