Warsaw, Poland
The first thing you need to know about Warsaw is that it is very, very, very cold. We went on a walking tour of Warsaw to see where a lot of the major events occurred. Like Treblinka, there is no remnants of the wartime struggle because everything was destroyed between the Ghetto Uprising and the Polish Underground Uprising. We started in the Deportation Plaza, where there is a monument in the spot that so many Jews were deported. We then made our way down the streets where we saw different monuments commemorating different important members of the Jewish community during the time of the Ghetto. We viewed the Rappaport memorial, where the artist reconstructed scenes of the Uprising and of the Deportations and its counterpart sits in Yad Vashem today. We ended at a monument erected in 1945, by the surviving leaders of the Uprising. Its many symbolic parts commemorate the brave Jews who fought to their deaths for freedom.
Monument at Deportation Plaza
Old Gestapo House
One of Many Monuments to a Polish Jew from the Ghetto
Rappaport Memorial
Memorial for Ghetto Uprising Fighters, est. 1945
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