President of Jewish Community in Poland Monika Krawczyk welcomed the words of Polish Deput Prime Minister: “In Poland, anti-Semitism is not allowed and there is no place for it in our country. Jewish people can feel safe’

“In Poland, anti-Semitism is not allowed and there is no place for it in our country. Jewish people can feel safe in Poland,’’ said Polish Deputy Prime Minister Piotr Glinski, at a conference in the European Parliament in Brussels marking the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

He  said that anti-Semitic incidents were “isolated” and “15 times less numerous than in Germany.”

He added that any anti-Semitic incidents “must be combated, including through education, both about the Holocaust and the many centuries during which Poles and Jews have coexisted.”

The conference, entitled: ‘Though if it be to die, we will fight… and our deeds will live forever’, featured also interventions from a range of reputed figures from the Polish and Jewish cultural and civic sectors.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which broke out on April 19, 1943 and lasted until May 16, was the first uprising in German Nazi-occupied Europe,  an act of fierce and desperate resistance to the Nazis’ efforts to transport the ghetto’s remaining population to death camps in Majdanek and Treblinka. It is the largest act of armed resistance by Jews in World War II. It is estimated that about 13,000 insurgents died in the ghetto during the revolt.

In addition to the conference, an exhibition about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was opened in the European Parliament, entitled ‘’City of the Living, City of the Dead.’’ It combines archival photographs of the Warsaw Ghetto with snapshots of contemporary life in the Polish capital. “Today, Warsaw is a city of the living. But we are not forgetting about those who died or were killed. Remembrance, passed from generation to generation, must last for eternity,’’ said the Polish Deputy Prime Minister.