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A Jew is arrested by German soldiers in April 1943 after the uprising of the Warsaw ghetto during WWII. When the Nazis set up the ghetto in 1940, it held more than 300,000 Jews. Two years later most of them had either died from starvation or disease or been carted off to an extermination camp. (STF/AFP/Getty Images) ( SAPA990402376070 )

In this April/May 1943 file photo, a group of religious Jews are being held under arrest by German SS soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops, following an uprising in the Jewish quarter. Friday, April 19, 2013 anniversary of the start of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, a revolt that ended in death for most of the fighters yet gave the world an enduring symbol of resistance against the odds. (AP Photo) ( Poland Warsaw Ghetto Uprising )

Nazi officers stroll through the streets as buildings in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, burn out of control, as the ghetto is destroyed, spring 1943. (AP Photo) ( WWII Poland Ghetto Destroyed 1943 )

A man emerges from an underground bunker during the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto during World War II, 1943. (AP Photo) ( WWII Polish Ghetto 1943 )

In this in April/May 1943 photo, a group of Polish Jews are led away for deportation by German SS soldiers during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. The Nazis won out by systematically burning the ghetto to the ground, house by house. "Once the Germans began adopting that strategy there wasn't much that people armed with pistols, or even rifles and machine guns, could do," said historian Steve Paulsson, an expert on the period whose Jewish family survived the city's destruction. (AP Photo) ( Gun Control Citing Hitler )

A man is shown as he jumped from a window of a building in the Warsaw ghetto, in 1943, during the destruction of the ghetto by the Nazis. (AP Photo) ( WWII Warsaw Ghetto Suicide 1943 )

Nazis arrest citizens in the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland, spring 1943. (AP Photo) ( WWII Polish Ghetto 1943 )

1st October 1944: The end of Warsaw's uprising sees a group of city defenders marched off to prison camps by their German captors. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) ( 3276496 )

Circa 1939: One of the periodic raids made on the Jewish area of Warsaw by the 'New Order'. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) ( 3315153 )

A Nazi SS-man inspects a group of Jewish workers in April 1943 in the Ghetto of Warsaw. On April 19, 1943 the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought for nearly a month. But on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended The Germans had slowly crushed the resistance. Of the more than 56,000 Jews captured, about 7,000 were shot, and the remainder were deported to killing centers or concentration camps. (AFP/Getty Images) ( APP2003040255678 )

SS officers are shown in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, during its destruction in the spring of 1943. (AP Photo) ( WWII Warsaw Ghetto Destruction 1943 )

File picture taken in the 40's of a tramway going around a street of the Warsaw Jewish ghetto, displaying a star of David. In October 1940, the Nazis began to concentrate Poland's population of over 3 million Jews into overcrowded ghettos, in which the largest of these, the Warsaw Ghetto, where thousands of Jews died due to rampant disease and starvation, even before the Nazis began their massive deportations from the ghetto to the Treblinka extermination camp. In 1943 the Warsaw Ghetto was the scene of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the first urban mass rebellion against the Nazi occupation of Europe, which took place from 19 April until 16 May 1943, and began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. It ended when the poorly-armed and supplied resistance was crushed by German troops under the command of SS-Gruppenf¸hrer Jorgen Stroop. (OFF/AFP/Getty Images) ( ARP1888819 )

A street scene in the Warsaw Jewish ghetto during World War II. AFP/CAF PHOTO (AFP/Getty Images) ( ARP2565902 )

The dead lie in the ruins of the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, which was destroyed by the Nazis in the spring of 1943. (AP Photo) ( WWII Warsaw Ghetto 1943 )

A man carries away the bodies of dead Jews in the Ghetto of Warsaw in 1943, where people began to die of hunger in the streets. Every morning, about 4-5 a.m., funeral carts collected a dozen or more corpses on the streets. The bodies of the dead Jews were cremated in deep pits. On April 19, 1943 the Warsaw ghetto uprising began after German troops and police entered the ghetto to deport its surviving inhabitants. Seven hundred and fifty fighters fought for nearly a month. But on May 16, 1943, the revolt ended the Germans had slowly crushed the resistance. Of the more than 56,000 Jews captured, about 7,000 were shot, and the remainder were deported to killing centers or concentration camps. (AFP/Getty Images) ( APP2003040255680 )

Two men nap on a wooden slab in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, 1943. (AP Photo) ( WWII Polish Ghettos 1943 )

A family in a house in the Warsaw Jewish ghetto during World War II. AFP/CAF PHOTO ( ARP2565901 )

A street scene with children running from a guard in the Warsaw Jewish ghetto during World War II. AFP/CAF PHOTO (AFP/Getty Images) ( ARP2565904 )

Prisoners posing with guards outside the prison building in the Warsaw Jewish ghetto during World War II. AFP/CAF PHOTO ( ARP2565903 )

A wall partitions the central part of Warsaw, Poland, seen Dec. 20, 1940. It is part of the red brick and grey stone walls built 12 to 15 feet high by the Nazis in 1940 as a pen for Warsaw's approximately 500,000 Jews. The Warsaw ghetto uprising against Nazi Germany precipitated the destruction of the walled up area. Nearly all occupants were killed. (AP Photo) ( WWII Poland Ghetto 1940 )

Cantor Gershon-Itskhok Sirota (1874-1943) known as the "Jewish Caruso", who was chief cantor of Vilna and the Great Synagogue in Warsaw. He died in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. (US Library of Congress)

Nazi officers talk with citizens of the Warsaw ghetto, Poland, spring 1943. (AP Photo) ( WWII Warsaw Ghetto 1943 )

A street scene with a German nazi soldier checking someone's papers in the Warsaw Jewish ghetto during World War II. (AFP/Getty Images) ( ARP2565900 )

Sign at the entrance to the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw Plague reads: "Barred section only through fare permitted", Feb. 10, 1941, Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo) ( Warsaw Ghetto 1941 )

A group of young Jewish resistance fighters are being held under arrest by German SS soldiers in April/May 1943, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. (AP Photo) ( WWII WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING )

Gestapo search for weapons during a Warsaw ghetto raid. (The Denver Post Archive) ( img0824AA (2) )

A group of Polish Jews are being held at gunpoint by German SS soldiers, April/May 1943, during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto by German troops after an uprising in the Jewish quarter. (AP Photo) ( WWII WARSAW GHETTO UPRISING )

A German officer rounds up Jews before the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto, Poland, 1943. (AP Photo) ( WWII Polish Ghettos 1943 )

Fire breaks out during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a Polish insurrection against the German forces who had occupied Poland at the start of World War II. By 1944 Warsaw was the center of Polish resistance, but the army was forced to surrender on October 2nd 1944 under pressure from German air raids. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images) ( 3355998 )

All that remains of the Ghetto Quarter of Warsaw, Poland, is the catholic church seen standing among the debris on Oct. 13, 1945. (AP Photo) ( WWII Europe Poland German Attack 1945 )