Blue sky white clouds portrait, to St Andrew the Apostle Church, Warsaw Ghetto Wall Marker, Chlodna Street at Zelazna Street
Warsaw Ghetto Polish and English information panel, north side of Chlodna Street at Zelazna Street. The 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.' Next to the archive photograph of the footbridge over Chlodna Street, kept open by the Germans as an east-west artery, the panel continues: 'In December 1941, the entire area west of Zelazna Street up to Wronia Street, between Leszno and Grzybowska Streets, was excluded from the ghetto. On January 26, 1942, the two ghettos were connected by a wooden bridge over Chlodna Street.' Each boundary marker, here marking the south-east corner of the Ghetto, consists of three elements: a bronze plaque, 60cm by 70cm, with a map of the pre-war street plan of Warsaw and the ghetto at its greatest extent; a plaque of acrylic glass, 36cm by 50cm, with information in Polish and English about the place; cement strips, 25cm wide, with a cast iron bilingual sign 'Mur Getta 1940/Ghetto Wall 1943', placed in sidewalks and lawns to show the exact locations of the ghetto walls, here seen in the sidewalk right mid-distance.
Size: 1971px × 3042px
Location: Warsaw Ghetto Marker, Chlodna Street at Zelazna Street, to St Andrew the Apostle Church, Warsaw
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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