The "Battle of Warsaw" : the Chief Rabbi's sermon at the service of mourning and prayer for the martyrs of the Warsaw Ghetto, Bevis Marks Synagogue, May 22, 1944
The "Battle of Warsaw" : the Chief Rabbi's sermon at the service of mourning and prayer for the martyrs of the Warsaw Ghetto, Bevis Marks Synagogue, May 22, 1944
Curatorial Notes:
Marking the one-year anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, this sermon is a sad bookend to Hertz’s sermon 11 years earlier, also featured in this exhibition. It mourns the death and destruction he predicted in 1933. Hertz strongly criticizes the world’s muted response to the “mass crucifixion of a whole people.” These sermons illustrate how British Jews spoke out against oppression from the rise of Hitler, through the end of the war.