Monument to the Ghetto Heroes - Warsaw, Poland
N 52° 14.983 E 020° 59.649
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Sculptor Nathan Rappaport captures the horror of the Holocaust and the heroic efforts of resistance fighters in his larger-than-life monument to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, erected in 1948.
Waymark Code: WM55V2
Location: Mazowieckie, Poland
Date Posted: 11/16/2008
Views: 45
The ghetto, the largest created by the Nazis, sprawled across a dozen blocks in the heart of Warsaw and held an estimated 450,000 Jews in the early 1940s. As conditions grew untenable and it became clear the Nazis were intent on slaughtering everyone in the ghetto, a small band of resistance fighters grouped together to battle their tormentors. The uprising was doomed from the start. The insurgents had few weapons and little training. They also had nothing to lose and managed to hold out against the fierce onslaught of battle-hardened troops for several weeks before the entire ghetto was destroyed.
A bronze relief dominates the memorial, between Karmelicka and Zamenhofa streets in what was once the heart of the ghetto, focusing on a defiant image of Mordecai Anielewicz, the leader of the ghetto's Jewish Fighting Organization. The back is filled with a melancholy image of a group of Jews being marched to their deaths by their Nazi captors.
(from ajc.com)
Completely unimaginable today for many what conditions these people must have lived under and what hellish acts they were subjected to - a good reason to erect a memorial so that it doesn't happen ever again.
Physical Address: ul Zamenhofa Warsaw, Poland 00000
Date Dedicated: 04/19/1948
Supporting Website: [Web Link]
Memorial Type: Monument/Plaque
Fee/Donation: Not listed
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