Jewish Warsaw, Part Two

This is Part Two of my Jewish Warsaw post.

These are memorials or remnants of Jewish past in Warsaw.

Route Recalling the Martyrdom & Struggle of the Jews 1940-1943

Blocks of stone with names of those active in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.  They start at the  Heroes of the Ghetto Monument and run to Umschlagplatz.

A heroic fight of the Jewish warriors for human dignity. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
 4/19/1943 - 5/15/1943

Emanuel Ringelblum, 1900-1944
Historian, member of the Poalej Zion Left, activist, founder of the underground archives of the Ghetto.  Hidden by Poles from 1943 and executed along side of them on March 10th 1944 in Pawiak.

Meir Majerowicz "Marek", 1911-1943
Member of Poalej Zion CS, commander during the Ghetto Uprising.  Posthumously awarded the Cross of Valour. 

Pawel Frankel, commander of the Jewish Military Union.
Dawid Apfelbaum, Leader of the ZZW division near Muranowki Square.
Both fell during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fight.

 Mila 18

Monument to the Ghetto Fighters who perished in the bunker below on 5/8/1943.  More than one hundred people hid in the bunker of the house that once stood here.  The bunker served as headquarters for the resistance fighters.
 

Umschlagplatz

Site of the railway platform from which three hundred thousand Jews were loaded onto trains and transported to Treblinka starting on July 22, 1942.

The monument was erected in 1988 and it is engraved with 448 names as a symbolic representation of those who perished, from Abel to Zanna.  
 

 Stawki 6-8
This building, once a school and Jewish hospital, was where Jews were held prior to being shipped to Treblinka. 

The plaque on the building says:
During the first hours of the Warsaw Uprising on August 1st, 1944, a branch of the AK (Home Army), under the leadership of Lieutenant  Sosabowski, gained control of this building after a fight with the SS.  They managed to free about 50 Jews who were deported to Poland from other European countries.  The members of the AK went on to fight in various battles throughout Warsaw. 

This commemorative plaque on the building says:
This building, a former school and a transit Jewish hospital, was where Jews were held prior to deportations to Treblinka.

    

7 Sierakowskiego Street

Built in 1926 for Jewish University students.  One of the residents was Menachem Begin, a law student at the University of Warsaw, who later became the Prime Minister of Israel and a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

The building also housed the Department for Public Safety.  NKVD - People's Commissariat for Secret Affairs, Soviet Secret Police and UB, Polish communist Secret Police.  The plaque is in memory of Polish citizens murdered by the NKVD & UB between the years 1944-1956.

11 Walicow Street, part of the Ghetto Wall

Chlodna street
This street was excluded from the ghetto as it played a major transport role.  The inhabitants of the ghetto had to use a wooded footbridge to go between the "little" and the "big" Ghetto.

 

 The site of the bridge is marked with these pillars on each side of the street.

 One can look here and see photographs of what this street looked like in 1942.

Monument To The Evacuation of the Ghetto Uprising Fighters.

51 Prosta Street
Following the Ghetto Uprising, a group of fighters made their way into the Aryan side using the canals.  They spent over 48 hours in the sewers and managed to escape with the help of two Polish sewer workers.  Kazik Ratajzner (now Symcha Rotem), was the brave leader of the evacuation.

Monument to the Memory of Jews and Poles

21 Gibalskiego Street

A monument commemorating the mass graves of Jews and Poles murdered during WWII

60 Sienna Street
Built for Jewish children in 1876-1878, founded by Dr. Mejer Berson and his daughter Paulina Bauman.  Janusz Korczak worked here prior to WWII.
On August 10th 1942, the staff along with the children were moved to the "big" Ghetto on Zelazna/Leszno Street.  From there they all went to Umschlagplatz for deportation.

Later during the war this building was used as a hospital caring for the wounded fighters of the Warsaw Uprising.

The Janusz Korczak Monument

more on Janusz Korczak in my Jewish Cemetery post.

There are some other sites that I will get to on my next trip to Warsaw.

Joanna