Monument to the Ghetto Heroes
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On a large grassy square between Karmelicka and Zamenhofa streets, in the centre of Muranow, is the Ghetto Heroes Monument. The square itself is dotted with trees and during the summer plays host to dog walkers, sunbathers and people out for a casual stroll. It is hard to believe that right here the main bunker of the Jewish Fighting Organization (ZOB) was located and that one of the most desperate battles in human history took place.
The monument commemorates the tens of thousands who lost their lives in the Ghetto Uprising of 1943. It was designed by sculptor Nathan Rappaport and made of granite which the Nazis imported from Sweden, ironically to build their own victory tower. The front of the monument has a bronze relief depicting a group of insurgents and the leader of the uprising Mordacai Anielewicz, who stands with a grenade in his hand. The back shows a group of Jews being marched to their death.
There is an exact copy of the monument in Yad Vashem in Israel.
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A few errors, the sculptor's name is rapoport, the copy in Israel is not exact and Rapoport imported the stone from Sweden although it had originally been put aside for a Nazi monument.
ReplyI think, It is interesting to know that this monument was the first monument erected by the Communist government in post war Poland, the year was 1948... It is dedicated to 220 Jewish fighters. The monument dedicated to the Jews deported to Tremblinka and other camps is nearby.
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