Blue sky stone setts portrait Chlodna Street, to Trade Tower, with cars at Zelazna Street by Ghetto footbridge memorial, Warsaw
A nearby 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. A monument to the location of the footbridge stands left mid-distance. In the background of the shot rises the 43-storeys Warsaw Trade Tower (WTT), built 1997-1999, and, reaching a height of 208 m (682 ft), which includes a 24 m antenna spire rising from the roof, is, with the Palace of Culture and Science, one of two buildings in Warsaw with a height of over 200 m. It is currently the third tallest building in Poland. The Insurance Company, AXA, is the main tenant and its logo is seen prominently on the upper floors. The skyscraper has underground parking for 300 cars and a 2-storey shopping centre.
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Location: Chlodna Street at Zelazna Street, looking west to Warsaw Trade Tower, Warsaw, Poland
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
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