The Nazis decided to liquidate the Warsaw Ghetto and the survivors determined to resist. Writes Don Feder The Warsaw Ghetto uprising ended on May 16, 1943. Almost five years later to the day (May 14, 1948), the State of Israel was reborn. From death to life – from sadness to joy, as the Haggadah says. It wasn’t the ghost of Warsaw alone which was laid to rest with the establishment of the Jewish state, but also Masada (the fortress in the Judean Desert, which fell to the Romans in 73 CE) and almost two millennia of pogroms, massacres, forced conversions...