Memorial to children - victims of the Holocaust

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The monument to children - victims of the Holocaust in Warsaw

The Memorial to Children - Victims of the Holocaust is a memorial in the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street in Warsaw , dedicated to the children who were victims of the Holocaust .

history

The memorial was financed by Jacek Eisner . In its shape it is reminiscent of a high ghetto wall with barbed wire. Slabs in the shape of a menorah lead to the monument . In the lower part there are ruins of the ghetto, on the surface of which photos of children who perished during the Second World War were inserted. The memorial has a plaque with an inscription in Polish, Hebrew and English: In memory of a million Jewish children who were murdered by the German barbarians between 1939 and 1945 . One of the photos is a sunken in thought girl in plaid dress with a coin is: This is the daughter Chaskiel Bronstein, of the photo studio Fotografika in Tarnów led (Poland) and in the narrative Mercedes Benz of Paweł Case was mentioned.

Here is also the symbolic grave of the Szteinman family, who were murdered during the Holocaust, and two memorial plaques:

  • the first plaque with an inscription in Polish , Hebrew and English : Grandma Masza had twenty grandchildren. Grandma Hana had eleven and only I survived. Jacek Eisner.
  • the second panel with the poem of Henryka Łazowertówna Small Schmuggler (pol. Mały szmugler ) in Polish , Hebrew and English Language

Web links

Commons : Memorial of the Children - Victims of the Holocaust  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files