Sunny view gravestone with shattered forest motif above entrance to Umschlagplatz Monument, 10 Stawki Street, Warsaw, Poland
In April 1988, the 45 Anniversary of the outbreak of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a stone monument, resembling an open freight car, was unveiled at 10 Stawki Street, to mark the Umschlagplatz or place of deportation to the Treblinka Death Camp for the residents of the Warsaw Ghetto, beginning in July 1942. The inscription on four commemorative plaques, in Polish, Yiddish, English and Hebrew reads: 'Along this path of suffering and death, over 300,000 Jews were driven 1940-1943 from the Warsaw Ghetto to the gas chambers of the Nazi extermination camps.' 448 of the most popular Polish-Jewish names, in alphabetical order, from Aba to Zanna, are also engraved on the monument. Each name commemorates 1000 ghetto victims. The monument's stonework, grey-white with black strip, as seen here, refers to Jewish ritual clothing. The monument's gate is surmounted by a syenite gravestone, donated by Sweden, with the motif of a shattered forest, representing the extermination of the Jewish Nation.
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Location: Umschlagplatz Monument, 10 Stawki Street, Warsaw, Poland
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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