French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner awarded him the Legion of Honor in 2008, on a visit to Poland marking the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

CNN: Warsaw Ghetto fighter Marek Edelman hailed

Edelman was one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, "the largest, symbolically most important Jewish uprising" against the Nazis during World War II, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

CNN: Warsaw Ghetto fighter Marek Edelman hailed

The coincidence of two terrible contemporary tragedies -- Serbia's vicious conquest of one of the last Muslim outposts in Eastern Bosnia, Srebrenica, and the loss of virtually every man, woman and child who remained in the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas -- with the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising and the international remembrance of the Holocaust represents a defining moment in history.

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