Remains of the Warsaw ghetto wall
The remains of the Warsaw ghetto wall that still exist today contain fragments of the 18 kilometer long and 3 meter high walls (partly also integrated house walls) that separated the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto from the “ Aryan ” part of the city from November 15, 1940 . After the suppression of the ghetto uprising in May 1943, the German occupiers systematically destroyed the remains of the former Jewish residential area that still existed at that time. By the end of the war and as part of the clean-up and rebuilding work in Warsaw in the post-war period, all but a few remains of the former ghetto wall disappeared.
The three best-known surviving fragments belonged to the so-called “small ghetto” and are located in the courtyards of buildings at Ulica Sienna 55 ⊙ , Ulica Złota 62 ⊙ and Ulica Waliców 11 (part of a building wall of the former Herman Jung brewery) ⊙ . Other remains can be found at Ulica Chłodna 41 , Ulica Krohabenna 4/28 , Ulica Ogrodowa 55 , Ulica Okopowa 78 , Ulica Stawki 10 and the corner of Ulica Świętojerska / Ulica Nowiniarska .
Remains of the wall can also be found at the Jewish cemetery on Okopowa Street and at the building of the Warsaw District Court (Polish: Sąd Okręgowy w Warszawie ) on the former Ulica Leszno (today: Aleja Solidarności 127 ). Various types of memorial plaques were attached to the listed wall fragments.
Reminder markers
From 2008 to 2010, on the initiative of the Warsaw Jewish Historical Institute and the city's monument protection authority, commemorative markings (Polish: Pomniki granic getta ) of the former ghetto borders were set in 22 places . The markings were created by Eleonora Bergman, Tomasz Lec, Ewa Pustoła-Kozłowska and Jan Jagielski and contain three elements each: a bronze plaque with a ghetto outline (60 × 70 cm) and acrylic glass information board (36 × 50 cm), which is mostly embedded in a concrete pillar ) as well as a 25 cm wide concrete strip containing the continuous inscription MUR GETTA 1940 / GHETTO WALL 1943 consisting of metal letters and following the original course of the ghetto wall over several meters.
Individual evidence
- ↑ according to Information The Warsaw Ghetto from 1940 to 1943 at warschau.info (accessed on March 23, 2013).
- ↑ according to Discover Małgorzata Danecka, Thorsten Hoppe, Warsaw. Tours through the Polish capital , Trescher Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89794-116-8 , Berlin 2008, p. 204.
Web links
- Jonathan Fowler, The Warsaw Ghetto: key facts and what remains on the EJP News website of April 13, 2008 (in English, accessed March 23, 2013)