Poles, Citizens, Soldiers of Freedom,
Amid the noise of cannons which the German army is using to storm our homes, the flats of our mothers, children and wives;
Amid the rattle of machine-gunfire which we are gaining in our fight with cowardly gendarmes and SS-men;
Amid the smoke of fires and dust, of the blood of the murdered Warsaw Ghetto, we – prisoners of the Ghetto – send you brotherly, sincere greetings.
We know that with heartfelt pain and tears of sympathy, with admiration and anxiety, you have been following the outcome of this battle which we have been waging with the terrible occupier for a few days now.
Yet you also know that each threshold of the Ghetto, as before, will remain a fortress. Perhaps we will all perish in this fight but we will not give in. [You know] that we, like you, long for revenge and punishment for all the crimes of our common enemy.
A battle is raging for your Freedom and ours.
For your and our human, social, national honour and dignity.
We will avenge the crimes of Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belżec and Majdanek.
Long live the brotherhood of arms and the blood of Fighting Poland!
Long live Freedom!
Death to the butchers and henchmen!
Long live our fight to the death and life against the occupier!