Sunny portrait two tall metal poles of the Warsaw Ghetto Footbridge Memorial, Chlodna Street towards Zelazna Street, Warsaw
A nearby information panel information panel reads: 'By order of the German occupation authorities, the ghetto was cut-off from the rest of the city on November 16, 1940. The ghetto area, surrounded by a wall, was initially 307 hectares (759 acres). With time, it was reduced. Starting in January 1942, it was divided in two parts called the large and small ghettos. Approximately 360,000 Warsaw Jews and 90,000 from other towns were herded into the ghetto. Nearly 100,000 died of hunger. During the summer of 1942, the Germans deported and murdered close to 300,000 people in the gas chambers of Treblinka. On April 19, 1943, an uprising broke out in the ghetto. Until mid-May fighters and civilians perished in combat or in the systematically burned ghetto buildings. The remaining population was murdered by Germans in November 1943 in the Majdanek, Poniatowa and Trawniki concentration camps. Only a few survived. To the memory of those who suffered, fought and perished. The City of Warsaw, 2008.' On January 26, 1942, the two ghettos were connected by a wooden bridge over Chlodna Street, which the Germans kept open as an east-west artery through the city. Electric trams were first used on Chlodna Street in 1908. From 2010-2011, the cobblestones road with its tram rails was restored to its pre-war appearance. A Street Footbridge Memorial ('Footbridge of Memory Memorial') was opened October 1, 2011. The Memorial consists of steel pylons connected by overhead ropes to commemorate the location here in 1942 of the wooden footbridge, a symbol of the Holocaust, joining the 'small' and 'large' ghettos. The poles have viewing windows where visitors can scroll through images of life in the Warsaw Ghetto. Portrait shot across Chlodna Street towards Zelazna Street.
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Location: 'Footbridge of Memory Memorial', Chlodna Street, Warsaw, Poland
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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