Red pavings leading to the actual manhole used by escaping Jewish Fighters, Ghetto Fighters Monument, 51 Prosta Street, Warsaw
The monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Fighters, at 51 Prosta Street, was unveiled 25 May 2010 at the very place where on 10 May 1943 forty combatants of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising were evacuated from the sewage canals, loaded onto a truck and transported to freedom. Most of those rescued fought again in the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944. Information inscribed on the monument reads: 'Here, on 10 May 1943, Simcha Rotem-Ratayer, nom de guerre "Kazik", combatant in the ghetto uprising, led the last group of some forty fighters of the Jewish Combat Organisation through sewage canals, out of the burning ghetto. They later continued their armed struggle as members of partisan units and in the Warsaw Uprising. Some of them survived the war, bearing witness to the herosim of the Warsaw ghetto.' Here we see a replica of a manhole hatch, with red pavings leading to the actual sewage canal manhole used by the Warsaw Ghetto Fighters at this location. To the sides of the replica manhole stand marble information tablets outlining the history of the site; names of those fighters who came out of the canals and survived; the names of those who came out of the canals and later died in combat; names of those who remained in the canals; and the name of sewer workers who helped the Ghetto Fighters.
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Location: Warsaw Ghetto Fighters Monument, 51 Prosta Street, Warsaw, Poland
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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