A Personal Reflection on Jewish Power: In the Warsaw Ghetto and the Skies with the IAF

On April 19, 1943, a photograph was taken of Jewish men, women and children, surrounded by German soldiers, hands aloft to confirm their surrender. They had literally been smoked out of their hiding holes by a German army that had been humiliated by a small, determined band of Jewish fighters resisting the deportation to death camps of any remaining War…