Sixty years ago today, on April 19, 1943, a large force of the German army under the leadership of SS Gen. Juergen Stroop entered the Warsaw Ghetto. Its mission: to wipe out the last remnant of Warsaw's Jews, some 40,000 men, women and children. To their astonishment, the Germans were met by a hail of bullets and grenades, which caused them to retreat, regroup and call for reinforcements. The fire came from a group of desperate young men and women called the Jewish Fighting Organization. Of the original 400,000 inhabitants of the ghetto, set up in late 1940, most of those who had survived starvation, typhus and dysentery had been sent to the Treblinka death camp, 60 miles east of Warsaw.[...]